Stevie Marie Spaulding grew up in the Northwest woods between Scappoose and Vernonia, where she helped her mother raise 13 siblings, breed pigs, and work on the neighboring farms. After high school she earned a degree in business-economics from Willamette University and worked in the financial industries and music business. She is currently a student at Concordia University pursuing a Masters of Arts in Teaching at the secondary level. Her endorsements are business and basic math. After graduation she hopes to teach in a small rural town in Oregon, Northern California, Idaho, Washington, Wyoming, or Montana and eventually farm organic produce, raise livestock, build/sell guitars, and produce records with her husband.