{"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\/so\/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. She loves exploring Minneapolis and St. Paul in search of good food, great art, or out-of-the-way shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1\"><strong>Fanaaniinta la jecel yahay:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prince, David Bowie, Qabiilka loo yaqaan Casaanka, Qaranka, Beyonce<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2\"><strong>Haddii ay tahay inaad doorato hees mawduuc ah oo ciyaari doonta mar kasta oo aad qolka soo gasho, maxay noqon lahayd?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maalinta quruxda badan ee Bill Withers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3\"><strong>Buugaag la jecel yahay:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akhrinta muuqaalka kaynta leh ee Tom Wessels, Guriga Birchbark ee Louise Erdrich, B waxaa loogu talagalay Brooklyn by Selina Alko<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4\"><strong>Filimada la jecel yahay:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aroosadda Princess, Royal Tenenbaums,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5\"><strong>Cuntada la jecel yahay:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dhammaan baasto! baasto, baasto bariis, soba, yum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Xigasho aad jeceshahay:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&quot;Dhammaanteen waxaan sameynaa wax ka fiican marka aan dhammaanteen wax ka fiican sameyno.&quot; 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-7\"><strong>Maadada ugu jecel dugsiga:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kooxda heesa, bayoolajiga, masraxa, fanka, fanka luqadda<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8\"><strong>Khibrada masraxa ee ugu jecel:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In la arko HOTB&#039;s dhoola-tuska iyo dabbaaldegga Mayday markii ugu horreysay iyo garashada awoodda boombalayaasha WEYN, dabbaaldegga bulshada, iyo dhaqanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9\"><strong>Goobtaada fasaxa ugu dambeeya:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morocco<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-10\"><strong>Haddii aad yeelan karto hal awood sare, maxay noqon lahayd?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Awood u yeelashada &#039;arkida&#039; taariikhda shay ama dhismo duug ah adigoo taabanaya ama haya<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-11\"><strong>Qofka ugu saamaynta badan noloshaada\/macallimka ama lataliyaha aad jeceshahay:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hooyaday! Waxa uu i siiyay xiiso qoto dheer oo ku saabsan dabeecadda waxa uuna i bartay in aan ku hogaamiyo naxariis iyo jacayl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-12\"><strong>Waxa aad rabtay inaad noqoto markaad kortay:<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jilaa ama dhakhtarka xoolaha<\/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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