Heather Gerhart Email & Phone Number

Fort Collins, Co, Us

Collaborate with Keystone Symposia’s leadership team to coordinate Diversity in Life Sciences Program initiatives that provide scientists from underrepresented backgrounds with unique training, mentorship, and career-development opportunities designed to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in the biomedical research community.

Instruct Introduction to Cultural Documentation, a course that prepares students with basic tools and competencies related to planning and conducting cultural documentation projects in a field research setting.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Related contracts include: • Digital Storytelling & Virtual Exchange Facilitator (8/10/17-6/30/18) for Saving What Matters, a Communities Connecting Heritage program project. This international heritage preservation collaboration between Coastal Heritage Alliance (St Michaels, Maryland, USA) and Cultural Heritage without Borders (Bosnia and Herzegovina) was funded in part by a Department of State World Learning Grant. http://interactives.worldlearning.org/communities-connecting-heritage/ • Digital Storytelling Facilitator (Independent Contractor with StoryCenter; 7/8/16-present)@DigitalStoryHub

Supported Keystone Symposia’s Diversity in Life Sciences Program initiative, including funding research and grant development, as well as Program evaluation and assessment to inform Program enhancements.

Silverthorne, Co

• Managed preparation and submission of ~45 federal grant applications annually to the NIH and NSF that supported the organization’s scientific conference, scholarship and diversity programming.• Analyzed conference participant exit survey data and evaluated Keystone Symposia’s scientific conference programming; prepared and presented annual Report on Effectiveness to the Board of Directors. • Helped to found, develop and acquire funding for Keystone Symposia’s Diversity in Life Science Program. Assisted with outreach and evaluation of this Program aimed at increasing participation at our scientific conferences by populations typically underrepresented in science.

Guided students in fieldwork (interviewing, audio recording, still photography and videography), and led a hands-on workshop that introduced digital storytelling design and production, as well as explored storytelling as a narrative approach to catalyzing work within community.

Rockville, Md

Served as Project Officer responsible for competitive grants, Congressionally mandated projects and cooperative agreements: participated in grant application review; informed grantees of relevant technical and legislative trends; monitored and assessed grantees' compliance with conditions of award and overall progress.

Rockville, Md

Rotations:* Dental and Special Projects Branch, Bureau of Health Professions * Office for the Advancement of Telehealth* Office of Science and Epidemiology, HIV/AIDS Bureau * Division of Health Center Management, Bureau of Primary Health Care

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Assisted department faculty with course preparation; grading; technical editing (faculty publications); ethnographic survey collections arrangement; archaeological site distribution set data entry. Assisted Professor of Archaeology with field school: assistant-teaching, shared supervision of field crew. Archaeology Lab Coordinator/Instructor

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Cultural Sustainability

Junior Fellowship

Arranged and described Pinelands Folklife Project Collection, a multi-format ethnographic collection; transcribed Coal River Project.

B.A., Anthropology

summa cum laude