Heather Butts is an Integration of Science and Practice (ISP) instructor and faculty adviser of the part-time Health Policy and Management students at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where she teaches bioethics and public health law. She also serves as an adjunct professor in health law and bioethics at Saint John’s University School of Law.
She is the co-founder of H.E.A.L.T.H. for Youths, Inc., which focuses on college readiness, service learning and health for young adults (the acronym stands for Health, Education, Academic, Life-skills, Training and Help). She is a board member of the non-profit Northside Center for Child Development. She is the founder of the online training and education company L.E.A.R.N. for Life Consulting, LLC, which provides education in a holistic manner that incorporates exercise, life-skills, healthy living, community service and a spirit of overall life improvement. She also counsels high school students on college readiness.