As Executive Director of SDG2030.me, she creates and curates monthly activities around the Sustainable Development Goals. Emphasis is youth-led initiatives and developing HUBs of community, action and virtual learning. A design feature of our first connective HUB, dedicated to SDG 5, was showcased at the United Nations’ High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in July 2022.
Heather is currently working with a team of young global leaders to develop a digital community center dedicated to climate change prevention and mitigation. Launched in November 2022, this SDG 13 HUB features an Interactive Project Showcase, a digital Learning Center and a major project linking climate change mitigation with human trafficking prevention: Footprint to Sustainability.
She has also initiated and organized related conferences, such as: Achieving Gender Equality and Female Empowerment: A Collaborative Vision of SDG 5. She consults on capacity building for gender sensitivity in various areas of project management.
Public outreach is a specialty, whether keynoting at global events, moderating high-level diplomatic panels, guiding technical-expert interactive workshops, or moderating a televised broadcast with an in-person audience of 10,000 people. Her Manhattan-based television interview series has won national awards. Three television-segment interviews Heather hosted and produced on the topic of human trafficking began airing in the US in Q2 2023.