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 focused on engaging and convening thought leaders from across sectors to build an economy that works for women.*
Heather has more than two decades of experience working as an advocate and thought leader focused on closing the gender and racial wealth gaps and building an equitable economy. Prior to joining Aspen, she founded and led Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap (CWWG), a multiracial/ethnic, cross-sector network of leaders working together to advance gender economic equity in the U.S. She is the principal and founder of Asset Building Strategies, a national consulting firm focused on building the financial security of low-wealth families and communities; and she was a founding staff member of the national nonprofit PolicyLink.Her insights have been covered in major news publications, including CNN Business, Fast Company, The Hill, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, NPR Marketplace, Slate, and USA Today. She earned an MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley.
*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.