Founder
Heather will forever be remembered for her triumph in the face of incredible adversity. Months after an uneventful birth in a small southern town in Alabama, Heather became gravely ill with meningitis. Though she managed to win the fight for her life, the battle inflicted one permanent scar—Heather was deaf.
Despite her deafness, Heather's life is a testament to the fact that she has the ability to hear—she just chooses to listen to a different voice. She has never heard the voices that tell us that we are not good enough, or smart enough, or brave enough to accomplish our dreams. Or in Heather's case, the voices of those that told her family that she would never accomplish any real goals, learn to speak, or develop much beyond a third grade level of education.
Obviously, she wasn't listening.