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Heather is a staff attorney at ChangeLab Solutions, and she works primarily in the healthy planning program area. Before joining ChangeLab Solutions, Heather worked at Communities for a Better Environment, a grassroots environmental justice organization, where she provided legal support and litigated on behalf of communities working to reduce pollution and build healthy neighborhoods. While in law school, Heather worked with the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center in Whitesburg, Kentucky, on coal mining environmental justice litigation and clerked with the U.S. EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. She was also a student advocate with the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York and the Center for Popular Democracy in Brooklyn, and she interned with New York Lawyers for the Public Interest. Heather graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in environmental studies, and she received her law degree from the New York University School of Law, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the NYU Environmental Law Journal.