Stephanie Cohen-Diaz

Located at the Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Stephanie Cohen-Diaz is a Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine (FJHM) resource for six gift officers in the Department of Medicine and Heart and Vascular Institute. She helps manage their stewardship and events efforts including graphic design and communications pieces. 

Stephanie was born and raised in Baltimore and stayed local for college, graduating from Towson University in 2009, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a marketing concentration. 

What brought you to Johns Hopkins?
My sister worked in the Department of Surgery at FJHM. After I graduated from Towson, she connected me with Anne Kennan Taylor, with the Department of Medicine (DOM), who had an opening for a coordinator position. 

What do you like most about your job?
I love that my job is never the same day to day. I work with gift officers who cover an array of diseases and divisions, such as rheumatic, infectious, and heart diseases. I am always learning, reading, and discovering something new. I also love the camaraderie among pseudo-designers at the Fund and throughout Hopkins. We are a creative bunch that share templates and ideas for projects. 

 What accomplishment are you most proud of?
I am proud that I paved my own career path at FJHM. When I started in 2009, it wasn’t common for a coordinator to advance to an assistant director role without becoming a frontline fundraiser. Ashlyn Sowell, my supervisor at the time, and I created an assistant director position that focuses on stewardship and events in DOM. I am thankful for my supportive leaders, past and present! 

Please share something we don’t know about you:
My journey to marriage is a true Hopkins love story! My husband worked down the hall from me at Bayview in infectious diseases research in 2014. We hung out in a group a few times, and I was even told by a colleague that he was stopping by my cubicle a little too often. We got married in November 2020 with a beautiful micro-ceremony and welcomed our first baby girl in February 2024. I will forever be grateful to Hopkins for helping me find love!