Heather Cronk's background is in campus organizing. She is a graduate of Berry College and Wake Forest University Divinity School. A native of Kentucky, Heather has lived in ten different states and is an expert in packing and unpacking.

The majority of Heather Cronk's professional experience has been in higher education, helping students find pathways into college activism, socially responsible careers, and meaningful movement-building work. She worked with Idealist.org's campus program, first as an organizer and then as director. In the role of director, Heather coordinated Idealist's work with college students primarily in the U.S., involving a unique combination of traveling nationally to train at campuses, running day-to-day operations for the program, organizing a 1,500-person national conference on student engagement and activism, building a strong network of incredible university programs and nonprofit organizations, and creating a website tying all these things together seamlessly.

Heather is now training director at the New Organizing Institute. Prior to her work at NOI, she worked with PledgeBank.com, a project of mySociety. In that position, Heather encouraged organizations and individuals across the country to use PledgeBank as a tool for local community organizing and citizen-centered collective action. She also connected organizations in the U.S. with mySociety's work in the U.K., creating channels for average citizens to use the web in order to connect more meaningfully with their neighbors and with their elected representatives. Simultaneous to her work with NOI, Heather is coordinating the IMPACT Conference, formerly known as the COOL Conference and the Idealist Campus Conference.