Heather Foran is the Education and Training Manager for worker buyouts at the Cooperative Development Institute. In this role, she supports workers who are converting existing businesses to worker cooperatives. She spent many years as a member and board member of the Southern Maine Workers’ Center and was involved in running a worker support hotline and free legal clinic. Prior to this work, Heather co-founded the Field Academy, a traveling high school program that brings together youth from across the US in partnership with community hosts to learn about critical social and environmental issues.