Stephanie Wakefield is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Design and Director of the Visual Planning Technology Lab in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University. Through writing, film, and design, her work explores the philosophical, technical, and environmental mutations of urban theory and practice in the 21st century. She is particularly interested in pushing urbanism beyond legacy conceptual and ideological frameworks, to generate new concepts and design modalities adequate to, and as wild as, the age we are in.

She holds a PhD in Urban Geography from the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York and has held positions at Eugene Lang College-The New School, Queens College, and Life University.

She currently leads social-ecological research for the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research Project, where she directs visualization as a research strategy for analyzing the changing relationship between urbanization and nature in South Florida.

She is the author of numerous articles and books including Anthropocene Back Loop: Experimentation in Unsafe Operating Space (Open Humanities Press, 2020) and Miami in the Anthropocene: Urban Resilience and Rising Seas (University of Minnesota Press, 2025).