Principal

Heather is a Principal at Urban3, where she leads organizational development, business development, and client outreach. She brings 25 years of leadership experience in local government organizations, most recently as Director of Long Range Planning in Minneapolis, where her team led the creation, engagement, and policy adoption of the Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan. In 2017, Heather brought Urban3 to Minneapolis to provide data visualization in conjunction with the Minneapolis 2040 planning process, as well as to address deep historic disparities caused by redlining, zoning, and land use policies through data visualization of municipal finance and planning.

Heather was the first Deputy County Manager appointed in Ramsey County, Minnesota, where she led the Economic Growth and Community Investment service team and led the restructuring of the county into service teams. She led the cleanup and redevelopment of the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (TCAAP), the state’s largest Superfund site, as well as the redevelopment of the former West Publishing site in downtown St. Paul on the Mississippi River. 

As Adjunct Faculty in the Hamline University School of Business, she teaches in the Center for Public Administration and Leadership program as well as in the Master’s in Public Administration program. Heather is past-president of the Minnesota City/County Management Association, and was one of the first ICMA (International City/County Management Association) credentialed City Managers in the state.