Heidi Heitkamp
Director, Institute of Politics, University of Chicago; Founder, One Country Project
Heidi Heitkamp is director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and founder and chair of the One Country Project, an organization focused on addressing the needs and concerns of rural America. From 2013 to 2019, Heitkamp served as the first female senator elected from North Dakota, where she worked across the aisle and prioritized improving the lives of Indigenous peoples and working families, affordable health care, a low-cost energy policy that achieves climate goals and more. Prior to that, she was North Dakota’s attorney general and elected state tax commissioner. Heitkamp is a board member of McCain Institute, The Howard Buffett Foundation and German Marshall Fund. She is a contributor to CNBC and ABC News.
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