She has also worked as an elementary school teacher in New York City and in Rochester, New York, where she developed a passion for culturally responsive pedagogy.
Heather is currently a fifth-year doctoral student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education – University of Toronto, in the Social Justice Education program. She has been awarded a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), a highly competitive national award competition. Her research centers reconciliation and reclamation of Indigenous ways of knowing in modern-day education systems.
Heather leads First Peoples Group, an Indigenous consulting firm that specializes in customized Indigenous cultural competency learning, engagement with Indigenous peoples, and reconciliation action planning.