Heidi moved to the St. Croix Valley in 2022, bringing with her more than a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector. She has held several roles in fundraising, communications, and administration with the University of Minnesota Libraries and the Minnesota Zoo Foundation. She currently serves as the Annual Fund Manager at Dodge Nature Center and Preschool, officing out of Dodge’s new Education Center at their Shepard Farm property in Cottage Grove. With a deep passion for education and environmentalism, she has dedicated her career to driving positive change within the communities where she lives and works and has recently joined The Partnership Plan’s board of directors. Her husband Curt is the middle school band and general music teacher in Osceola, and together they are raising their one-year-old child in Bayport.