Heather Altena

Heather Altena graduated from Calvin University in 1991 with a BA in Education and promptly moved to Vancouver, Canada. Over the last thirty years, she has worked in Vancouver, Washington state, the Chicago area, and back to Grand Rapids, MI. Though she started in the classroom, over the years she was absorbed into the school library. She gradually added side gigs play directing, devotion writing for ReFrame Media, and web organizing for the Christian Educator Journal. She then shifted to teaching high school English and became a curriculum coordinator. 

For the last three years she has been the Program Coordinator for INCHE (International Network for Christian Higher Education) honing her skills in international relationship building and conference planning. She brings to her new roles almost twenty years of experience in K-12 Christian education and administration, the organization and research skills of a librarian, the passion for the larger human story of an AP Lit teacher, the edge-of-chaos-event-planning of a middle school play director, the concision of a children's devotional writer, and the curiosity to meet, connect, and develop global experts in Christian higher education.

Heather lives in Grand Rapids with her husband, Christian, while four adult children are spread though Chicago, Grand Rapids and Toronto.