Stephen Seliy has been involved in education and workforce development in Pennsylvania for more than twenty years as the CEO of a marketing firm that represented economic development agencies to the Associate Executive Director of the Consortium for Public Education and the founder of The Future Is Mine. For more than a decade Seliy established relationships between employers, Career and Technical Centers, and public school districts that encourage students and families to consider all aspects of career planning. Seliy has experience working with school districts and career development specialists working in communities challenged by poverty and under unemployment. He has worked with major foundations and authored a 21st Century Grant for 1.5 million dollars to create a model career pathways project for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In addition to holding degrees and certifications from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, Seliy holds an Associate in Applied Science degree in Culinary Arts from the Community College of Allegheny County.

Since 2014, Seliy has worked in Western Africa and Eastern Europe on education and refugee issues as a documentarian. For the last two years, Seliy has worked for the Center for Peace Studies documenting the stories of refugees that have been trafficked by corrupt law enforcement regimes in Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia.