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Heather Mansfield

DIOSA Communications

Heather Mansfield has over ten years of nonprofit fundraising and online community organizing experience. Originally from Springfield, MO, Heather moved to Los Angeles at 19 to pursue a bachelors of arts in political theory from U.C.L.A. Study abroad programs led her to Mexico, Chile and Argentina to study Spanish and anthropology. After college Heather moved to Washington, DC where she worked by day at the Pew Center for Civic Journalism. By night and on the weekends she volunteered with the Guatemala Human Rights Commission. Inspired by their work, she then went to Guatemala where she volunteered with a school for street children. Upon returning to the United States, Heather moved to San Francisco. In 1999, Heather went on tour with the Lilith Fair Music Festival as a spokesperson for Global Exchange. She then worked with Asista.com and Passporta.com – both of which went of out business in the dot.com bust of 2001. In late 2001, she became the Communications and Outreach Director for International Development Exchange. Heather's career in web and e-mail communications received national recognition when she launched her own eActivist.org on July 23, 2000. She spoke at conferences all over the country and built one of the most popular e-activism websites on the Internet. She sold eActivist.org in 2004 to Capitol Advantage in Washington, DC. In late 2004, Heather returned to Springfield to take a job as Web Editor at Drury University. She launched DIOSA | Communications in February 2006 and then delved into the online metropolis of MySpace and launched myspace.com/nonprofitorganizations. She has become one of the leading experts in the nation on how nonprofit organizations can use MySpace to advance their online communications and fundraising strategies. In 2007, Heather left Drury University to become the online community manager for Change.org and focus on her own business.

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