Gail Heffner
Environmental
Gail Heffner is a Professor Emerita at Calvin College (now University), where she also directed the Office of Community Engagement. Heffner is a founder of the Plaster Creek Stewards, and she served as the principal administrator for a Clean Water Act 319 grant to restore the Plaster Creek watershed.
Heffner's research interests include community-based research, engaged scholarship, community development, and environmental service-learning. She is a co-author of Commitment and Connection: Service-Learning and Christian Higher Education.
Heffner holds B.A.s in Psychology and Religion from Grove City College, an M.A. in Economic and Social Development from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Resource Development from Michigan State University.
