• Twenty years teaching and advising students at the University of Connecticut, Penn State University and Manchester Community College
• Twelve-year member and former Chair of the Tolland, CT, Board of Education
• Speaker at the annual conferences of the New England Association of College Admissions Counselors; Workshop presenter for CREC (Connecticut Regional Educational Council) and for West Hartford Community and Mansfield Community Educational Programs
• Speaker at the PSU Higher Education Alumni Symposium
• Recent international residency experience at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the University of Sydney in Australia

• Independent Educational Consultants Association
• New England Association of College Admissions Counselors

• Board Member, Arts of Tolland
• Board Member, Tolland Library Foundation
• Director, Tolland Educational Foundation

• B.A. in Communications, The Pennsylvania State University
• M.A. in Organizational Communication, The Pennsylvania State University
• D.Ed in Higher Education, The Pennsylvania State University

“Thank you, Heather, for volunteering your time for COLLEGE GOAL SUNDAY-the program to help students and their families from the Greater Hartford area understand and apply for financial aid.  It was great to have you join us in this community effort.”

               Ivette Rivera-Dreyer, Director, Financial Aid, Manchester Community College

“I was going through some boxes tonight and came across my notes from a class you taught for parents of college-bound students.  Well my son just finished his freshman year at Yale University where he is very happy…He was also accepted at Dartmouth and the US Naval Academy, so your advice was right on the money…I’ve got three more kids to go and that’s why I saved the notes and hand-outs from your class.”

                           E. Dorsey, Windham CT