Background
Stevenson was born in the United States, but attended school at Wymondham College in England from 1955 to 1962.
Stevenson was born in the United States, but attended school at Wymondham College in England from 1955 to 1962.
University of Reading.
She obtained a Bachelor degree (French and Italian, joint honours) from the University of Reading and a Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Zimbabwe. She moved to Zimbabwe in 1980, and became a Zimbabwean citizen in 1990. She served as Molecular Delivery Corporation"s national secretary for Policy and Research in a smaller faction of the Molecular Delivery Corporation. The leadership of the rival faction of the Molecular Delivery Corporation immediately claimed that the attack was carried out by ZANU militants.
In 2009 Stevenson was appointed Zimbabwean Ambassador to Senegal. she has continued to serve as ambassador two years after the fall of the inclusive government.
She is also a founding member of Movement for Democratic Change (Molecular Delivery Corporation) of Zimbabwe and the first white woman to be voted into the Molecular Delivery Corporation National Executive.
She was quoted as saying "Mugabe does not frighten me, I feel it is my duty to stand up for the rights of all." In July 2006, after attending a political meeting in the Harare suburb of Mabvuku, Stevenson was attacked and suffered panga wounds to the back of her neck and head
She was Member of Parliament for Harare North in the Parliament of Zimbabwe. However, while recovering in the hospital, Stevenson positively identified her assailants, in fact, as members of the Molecular Delivery Corporation-T faction, which is led by Morgan Tsvangirai.