Heather Heying Biography
Heather Heying, an American evolutionary scientist, former lecturer, and author, rose to national prominence following the Evergreen State College demonstrations in 2017.
How old is Heather Heying? – Age
She is 54 years old as of April 26, 2023. She was born in 1969 in Santa Cruz, California, United States.
Heather Heying Family – Education
She was born to Douglas Heying. Until 2017, Heying was a biology professor at Evergreen State College in Washington State.
Heather Heying Husband
She has been married to American podcaster, and author Bret Samuel Weinstein. This makes her to be the sister-in-law to Eric Weinstein.
Heather Heying Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Heather Heying Evergreen State College
The couple filed a $3.85 million lawsuit against Evergreen State College in July 2017, saying the college had failed to “protect its employees from repeated provocative and corrosive verbal and written hostility based on race, as well as threats of physical violence.” The lawsuit came after a year of student protests that disrupted the campus and included an altercation between protestors and Heying’s husband, Bret Weinstein, an Evergreen biology professor. In September 2017, a settlement was struck wherein Weinstein and Heying each earned $250,000 and both resigned.
Heather Heying Podcast
She co-hosts a weekly podcast, the Darkhorse Podcast, on her husband’s YouTube channel.
Heather Heying Books
A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, written by Heying and Weinstein, will be released in 2021. Stuart J. Ritchie, writing for The Guardian, said the authors “lazily repeat false information from other pop-science books” and that the book had an obnoxious, know-it-all attitude. Nancy Koppelman and Leo Blakeslee, writing for Willamette Week, thought the book succeeded well at covering basic issues of evolution and biology, but flopped when the writers claimed expertise in disciplines other than their own, such as politics. Another review, written for Areo Magazine by English Literature graduate Daniel James Sharp, described the book as “a great, if also greatly flawed, achievement.”
Heather Career
Her doctoral dissertation investigated the evolutionary ecology and sexual selection of Mantella laevigata, a Madagascan poison frog. In addition to publications on frog reproductive evolutionary adaptations, Heying has authored a popular book, Antipode: Seasons with the Extraordinary Wildlife and Culture of Madagascar (2002), which describes her graduate student research in Madagascar.
Following her resignation, Heying contributed articles and opinion pieces on evolution and cultural politics to journals and newspapers such as The New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She co-hosts a weekly podcast, the Darkhorse Podcast, on her husband’s YouTube channel.
Heying was a James Madison Program Visiting Fellow at Princeton University from 2019 to 2020, with the fellowship continuing into 2020-2021. On April 29, 2020, they and Weinstein offered a theory on the evolutionary adaptation of consciousness.
