Meet Stephanie

Stephanie Bontempi
five stars

This Election Day
VOTE Stephanie for Suffolk

Stephanie was born and raised in Sweden to a French mother and Swedish father. In her early twenties, she attended college in Paris. Offered an opportunity to transfer—Stephanie moved to Connecticut to study at the University of Hartford and eventually found her way to Long Island.

Stephanie Bontempi has been a Huntington resident for almost 30 years. She is an educator who has taught elementary education at Cold Spring Harbor C.S.D., East Woods School, and most recently, at The Green Vale School in Old Brookville, where she has been teaching for the past 14 years. At The Green Vale School, Stephanie has received numerous accolades and recognition for her peer leadership, critical thinking, and academic outcomes. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Stephanie sits on the Admissions and D.E.I. (Diversity Equity Inclusion) Committees. Through the years, Stephanie has been active in many local community and charitable organizations, including ​The Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce​, the Townwide Fund of Huntington​, and most recently as the Chairperson of the ​Town of Huntington Beautification Advisory Council​.

Stephanie holds a B.S.B.A. in Economics/Finance from the University of Hartford, Connecticut, an M.S. in Elementary Education from C.W. Post, Long Island University, and an M.A. in Educational Technology from L.I.U. Post, Long Island University. Stephanie is fluent in Swedish and French and maintains dual citizenship (American & Swedish). She resides in Centerport with her husband and their youngest child. Her son practices law in North Carolina, and her oldest daughter is starting her third year at Notre Dame Law.

Get to know me!

Food

Any kind of salad with tons of crunchy veggies – Yes, I LOVE it! Not eating it to be healthy! And then ice cream and gummi-bears (must be Haribo) and pink or yellow Starbursts

Food

Any kind of salad with tons of crunchy veggies – Yes, I LOVE it! Not eating it to be healthy! And then ice cream and gummi-bears (must be Haribo) and pink or yellow Starbursts

Books

Too many to pick one, but I love mysteries / thrillers / espionage – anything DeMille, Daniel Silva, Richard North Patterson, Lars Kepler, Harlan Coben

Titles that touched me: Nineteen Minutes, by Jodi Piccoult, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, by Mike Sullivan, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Husseini, and The Old Man and the Sea, by Hemingway
I love to read!

Movies

Don’t watch TV much apart from the news, although my blood boils when I do, so I try to avoid it. During quarantine I watched “The Queen’s Gambit, “Goliath,” and “Godless” – all very different and I binge-watched them all!

Movies

Don’t watch TV much apart from the news, although my blood boils when I do, so I try to avoid it. During quarantine I watched “The Queen’s Gambit, “Goliath,” and “Godless” – all very different and I binge-watched them all!

Songs

Favorite songs: “I’ll Stand by You” – The Pretenders, “I’m Alive” – Celine Dion – anything Springsteen or Dion, and I love country and latin

My perfect day

Wake up and have coffee by MYSELF, before the rest of the house wakes up. A long run, or hike in the woods, followed by time with family and friends – cooking, hanging out in our backyard – casual and relaxed. Sweats, t-shirt, no make-up : )

My perfect day

Wake up and have coffee by MYSELF, before the rest of the house wakes up. A long run, or hike in the woods, followed by time with family and friends – cooking, hanging out in our backyard – casual and relaxed. Sweats, t-shirt, no make-up : )

Mantra to live by

Be humble, be kind, work hard.