Heather has a keen eye for spotting juicy research findings and when that fails she likes things that are sparkly.  She has a B.A. from Columbia University, Barnard College with a major in architecture. She later returned to school at the University of Connecticut to study clinical, child, and neuro-psychology, and primary prevention. Heather has worked as a primary mental health counselor with children in the Connecticut public school system and as a research associate at the Yale Health, Emotion & Behavior Laboratory. She is deeply thankful for her friends, her family, snow-tipped mountains, Maine blueberries, and those who inspire, create and invest in positive change in general.

Heather grew up in a home surrounded by nature.

• My Childhood Home and Enchantment by Nature

She draws

     

carves

and designs textiles