Heather supervises Youth, Outreach, Senior and Latino Services for Deschutes Public Library. She served on the 2005 Newbery Committee and 2013 Wilder Committee, and is currently on the 2018 Caldecott Committee. She was OLA's 2014 Librarian of the Year.She is an award-winning third generation storyteller, and has represented the United States at international storytelling festivals in Scotland and New Zealand.  Heather is also the author of two books of folklore and one on early literacy.