Heather Foran

Heather Foran is an ever-aspiring community organizer, facilitator, educator, and gardener. As a white, middle class, queer person she has committed to living and working where she grew up in southern Maine – and because of that is constantly learning about change: in herself, in her community, and the land around her. Heather currently works at the Cooperative Development Institute supporting workers to convert existing businesses to worker cooperatives. She is also a member and board member of the Southern Maine Workers’ Center and the Restaurant Workers’ Coalition. Since she was a teenager, her life has had many iterations of leaving and coming home – she co-founded the Field Academy, a travel-based high school program that explores critical social and environmental issues in regions of the United States. Heather went to her first jam in 2007 and since then jamming has shaped and continues to expand what she believes is possible.