Heather received her B.A. from Princeton University as a History major, concentrating in American and African-American Studies. She received her J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law, her Master’s in Public Health from Harvard University, and her Master’s in Education from Columbia University’s Teachers College.
Heather is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She is also the Faculty Course Lead for the Leadership Course at the Mailman School of Public Health.
Heather is the co-founder of the non-profit H.E.A.L.T.H for Youths, Inc., which partners with 90 programs annually to help more than 7,000 students achieve their dream of going to college. Projects include little free libraries, food pantries, career preparation, public health projects, and financial literacy.
She has been published several times in her professional career, including Thomas Augusta: Physician, Teacher and Human Rights Activist for the Journal of the National Medical Association; Personality and Policy Perception: What Responses are Seen as Appropriate for COVID-19.
She has also published two books: African American Medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the Capital During the Civil War Era; and Healing Civil War Veterans in New York and Washington, D.C.
