Heather D. Martin is forever curious about how to create a healthy, vibrant community of engaged, lifelong learners. "Everyone is an expert in something. It might be cellular regeneration, or modern art, or baking the perfect apple pie...collectively, we are pretty amazing."

With her ALM in Musuem Studies from Harvard, and her B.A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic, Heather has served her community as an organizer and lobbyist for numerous progressive campaigns including voter rights and marriage equality; as a lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine; as Executive Director of the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission; as head of Arts Are Elementary; and as Executive Director of the 1932 Criterion Theatre as it relaunched in 2015. Currently, she is serving as the Teaching Librarian for close to 600 students in grades 3, 4 & 5 at Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School.

Heather's writing has been published in Art New England, Maine Women Magazine, and The Museum Scholar. Her weekly opinion column, "Mainewhile," runs in The Forecaster, a division of Portland Press Herald.

When not working, Heather is often found tromping around the coast of Maine where she lives with her family, dogs, and a wild assemblage of horses.