{"id":25826,"date":"2024-07-31T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T16:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectsuccess.org\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=25826"},"modified":"2025-08-28T13:23:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:23:59","slug":"heather-nielsen","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.projectsuccess.org\/es\/about-us\/staff\/heather-nielsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Nielsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heather Nielsen joined the Project Success team in 2022, after relocating back to Minnesota mid-pandemic. She worked with organizations like the Guthrie Theater and Adventures in Cardboard and SPA while making Minneapolis her home after living in Brooklyn, New York for ten years. While in NYC, she engaged in education that prioritized social justice and created community based art and theater. She taught Fourth Grade at Friends Seminary in Manhattan, as well as directing class plays, co-directing Middle School theater, and creating original work with the Creative Arts Team Youth Theater. Other highlights were co-creating the Newtown Creek Puppet Parade and Pageant in Brooklyn, exploring the polluted waterway\u2019s past, present, and future with its young residents, earning her Masters in Applied Theatre through CUNY-SPS, and taking Educational Theatre classes at City College. Prior to moving to New York, Heather lived in Vermont and Minnesota and focused on experiential education, conservation, and youth leadership with both the Vermont and Minnesota Conservation Corps. Heather graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN with a BA in Environmental Studies and a focus on theater and social change. 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Pasta, fideos de arroz, soba, \u00a1qu\u00e9 rico!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bd8143eed853a64dbd1712bf5b07968b\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Cita favorita:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTodos lo hacemos mejor cuando todos lo hacemos mejor.\u201d Paul Wellstone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f38acfd7c199afcd8b126434eb3194c1\"><strong>Asignatura favorita en la escuela:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coro, biolog\u00eda, teatro, arte, artes del lenguaje.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d7db437c61b11cd5e3848971aaaffd43\"><strong>Experiencia teatral favorita:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ver el desfile y festival del Primero de Mayo de HOTB por primera vez y darme cuenta del poder de los ENORMES t\u00edteres, la celebraci\u00f3n comunitaria y el ritual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b78147e03ff9fc10d0ade776ca230a46\"><strong>Tu destino de vacaciones definitivo:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marruecos<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-51a12f38450c27e1c74857752e11f0ef\"><strong>Si pudieras tener un superpoder, \u00bfcu\u00e1l ser\u00eda?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poder &#039;ver&#039; la historia de un objeto o edificio antiguo toc\u00e1ndolo o sosteni\u00e9ndolo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e949affdeff19c00201af6ecb81df51\"><strong>La persona m\u00e1s influyente en tu vida\/maestro o mentor favorito:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a1Mi mam\u00e1! Me inculc\u00f3 una profunda curiosidad por la naturaleza y me ense\u00f1\u00f3 a ser amable y amorosa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-99f9c17dc16bb079a13b4cdb8a8b64ac\"><strong>\u00bfQu\u00e9 quer\u00edas ser cuando crecieras?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Un actor o un veterinario<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Nielsen joined the Project Success team in 2022, after relocating back to Minnesota mid-pandemic. She worked with organizations like the Guthrie Theater and Adventures in Cardboard and SPA while making Minneapolis her home after living in Brooklyn, New York for ten years. 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