• Earned bachelor’s degree from KU School of Business, 2017
• Member of KU Endowment Board of Trustees

Stephonn Alcorn is a vice president at the Blackstone Group, managing investments in affordable housing. He served as the associate director for racial justices and equity in the Joe Biden–Kamala Harris White House Domestic Policy Council and helped drive the formulation and implementation of the president’s equity agenda.

Alcorn began his career at Blackstone in 2017. He serves on the board of directors of Urban Pathways, a leading provider of transitional and permanent supportive housing in New York.

At KU, Alcorn was student body president and created and launched the business school’s Summer Venture in Business program, a pre-college summer academy for high school students interested in business. He earned a bachelor’s degree in finance in 2017 from the KU School of Business. He is pursuing his master’s degree in urban planning at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.