Heather McCulloch is an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program and a national thought leader on gender economic equity. She founded and leads Women in the Economy (WE), a national initiative that is engaging local, state, and national leaders from across sectors to reimagine an economy designed to work for women.*
Heather has more than two decades of experience working as an advocate and thought leader focused on building an inclusive U.S. economy. Prior to joining Aspen FSP, she founded and led Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap, a national network of leaders working build women’s economic security and close the gender wealth gap. She is the principal and founder of Asset Building Strategies, a consulting firm that supports philanthropic, nonprofit, and private sector leaders to develop strategies that build wealth for low- and moderate-income families and communities.
Heather’s insights have been covered in major news publications, including CNN Business, Fast Company, The Hill, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Ms. Magazine, NPR Marketplace, Slate, and USA Today. She earned a Master of Science in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy of Industrial Societies from the University of California, Berkeley, where she has returned as a visiting professor on two separate occasions.
*Women in the Economy uses a definition of “women” that is inclusive of cis-, transgender, and nonbinary people, and we have welcomed all LGBTQIA+ people in our research. Our definition of “working women” includes women who are providing care without compensation.