Heather Carroll is the President and Executive Director of the Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation, a private foundation serving the Colorado Pikes Peak area. She has 29 years of experience in grant making in the public and private sectors having previously served as a grants manager for the Colorado Department of Education, a program officer for El Pomar Foundation and Director of the Children's Brain Tumor Foundation in New York. She currently serves on the board for the Colorado Association of Funders and The Pikes Peak Community Foundation. Previously, she served as Board Chair for Atlas Preparatory School, Great Outdoors Colorado, Exponent Philanthropy, and the Rocky Mountain Women's Film Institute.

When not serving the community, Heather enjoys eating her husband Taylor's cooking and spending as much time as possible with him and their dog, Puck, enjoying the outdoors.