Heidi Stevens is the Director of External Affairs at the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health, a research institute that works to optimize brain development for all children. Prior to joining University of Chicago, Heidi worked at the Chicago Tribune for 23 years as a writer and editor. For the past decade she wrote a daily column called Balancing Act. She maintains a nationally syndicated column once a week and serves on the Board of Directors for FAN, a North Shore speaker series, and the Ross K. MacNeill Foundation, which works to raise money and awareness for pediatric brain cancer research.