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HEATHER BLANCHARD
Heather Blanchard has worked for the private sector, government and academia for 16 years. She has testified before the U.S Congress and provided insights to the European Commission advocating for inclusion and sharing the benefits of participatory communities and open data.
Heather is a co founder with Andrew Turner and Noel Dickover of CrisisCommons and the barcamp series, CrisisCamp which advocates for including of volunteer technology communities, open data and emerging technologies to innovate crisis management and global development. She supported the community to attract a $1.2M investment by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for CrisisCommons.
Heather has been a public servant in government supporting engagement and policy development in crisis communications and management, cyber security and intellectual property. While in the private sector Heather helped foster and lead an award-winning corporate social responsibility program.
Heather received her Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Radford University. She participated in Harvard University’s Leading in a Crisis program and Oxford University’s Comparative Law and Policy’s Summer Institute on Global Media and Technology Policy. She also has shared her ideas with USA Today, BBC and Wall Street Journal.
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