Stephanie DePrez is a Catholic writer and educator. She taught theology at Xavier College Preparatory High School in Palm Desert and Arrupe Jesuit High School in Denver, part of the Cristo-Rey network. While pursuing her master's degree in music from UCLA, Stephanie served as the music director at St. Timothy Parish in West LA from 2015 to 2018. She holds a bachelor of arts in music and film production from the University of Notre Dame and recently completed two years as a United States teaching assistant with Fulbright Austria in Vienna. Stephanie is also an accomplished opera singer and has sung in Los Angeles, New York, and Berlin.