Meet Stephanie J. Peters
In March 2024, Stephanie Peters launched Dragonfly Strategies, a consultancy that takes the legal, entrepreneurial, and advocacy skills to creatively assist and counsel global businesses to achieve more.
Before launching Dragonfly Strategies, Stephanie served as Microsoft’s Director of Congressional Affairs for the House of Representatives Democrats, following an extensive 20-year career focused on corporate social responsibility, immigration, trade, intellectual property and foreign sovereign representation.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Stephanie was a Partner at Patton Boggs LLP where she represented a number of major corporate clients. In her international practice, Ms. Peters focused on global sustainability and supply-chain issues for major corporate clients, and foreign sovereign representation primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. In addition, she devoted a significant portion of her time to pro bono matters, including issues relating to refugees, human rights and global development. As such, she received the Patton Boggs LLP Pro Bono Award in 2002.
During her tenure as a congressional staff member, Ms. Peters served as the Democratic counsel to members of the House Judiciary Committee from 1995-1999. Among her highlights, she advised members during the impeachment proceedings of former President Bill Clinton; aided in the drafting of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; and served as the lead Judiciary Democratic Counsel for floor consideration of the 1996 Immigration Reform legislation. She has traveled extensively including seven countries in Africa, Haiti, Azerbaijan, and Russia, to assess the U.S. role in care and maintenance of refugees and immigration reform issues.
Before joining the House Judiciary Committee, she was an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. She began her career in Washington as a law clerk with the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Technology and the Law.
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