April Stafford is the Chief of the Office of Design Management at the United States Mint. She joined the Mint in November 2000 as the education coordinator for H.I.P. Pocket Change, the Mint's website for kids and teachers. After growing this program into the larger Mint-wide education initiative, she served as Outreach and Education Branch Chief where her responsibility expanded to include management of the usmint.gov informational site.

Following consecutive assignments acting as Assistant Director of Special Programs/Products and, later, Brand Management, April joined Customer Operations to manage the Integrated Retail Information Systems (IRIS) Program’s Call Center and Fulfillment services contract. After a successful transition to a new service provider, April served in Customer Operations managing Customer Support until her promotion to Director, Office of Design Management in January 2013 where she was immediately tasked with reforming design processes to significantly improve schedule attainment.