She received a M.Arch from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University (2011) and a B.A. in Architecture from Columbia University (2008). Stefana is a recipient of the EPFL ThinkSwiss Scholars Grant to research housing development in Switzerland and was a designer for the Museum of Modern Art’s "Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream" exhibition. From 2011-2012 she was a Fulbright Scholar, spending the year in Serbia researching health tourism and geothermal spa development.