Stephanie Krewson-Kelly is Senior Vice President of Investor Relations & Capital Markets at Independence Realty Trust (NYSE: IRT). Prior to joining IRT in 2025, Ms. Krewson-Kelly, served as Senior Vice President of Capital Markets at Sun Communities, Inc. (NYSE: SUI), where, in addition to managing the company’s access to debt and equity capital, she oversaw Investor Relations, Global Treasury, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting. Prior to joining Sun, Ms. Krewson-Kelly headed Investor Relations at COPT Defense Properties (NYSE: CDP) for 12 years. In addition to her analytical, accounting and communication skills, Ms. Krewson-Kelly possesses extensive knowledge of capital allocation strategies employed by REITs over the past three decades.
Ms. Krewson-Kelly has served as an adjunct professor of real estate capital markets at the Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate & Construction Management at Denver University and is a Board member of the James A. Center for Real Estate Applied REIT program at the Wisconsin School of Business.
Ms. Krewson-Kelly’s REIT industry career began in 1994 and includes work in investment banking (1994‒1997), as a sell-side analyst (1997‒2009), as a manager at a REIT (2011‒present), and as an internationally published author (2016‒present).
Her most recent industry publication, Educated REIT Investing: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding and Investing in Real Estate Investment Trusts (John Wiley & Sons, 2020), is a comprehensive textbook and an expansion of her earlier work, The Intelligent REIT Investor: How to build Wealth with Real Estate Investment Trusts (John Wiley & Sons, 2016). Prior to her career in the REIT industry, Ms. Krewson-Kelly worked in internal audit for a global corporation in Paris, France.
Ms. Krewson-Kelly earned a B.S. in Economics from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, as well as a B.A. in English from its College of Arts & Sciences.