Staff

 Courtenay Carr Heuer, Co-Founder and Executive Director

Courtenay Carr Heuer is a Co-Founder of Scientific Adventures for Girls. She has experience in both the private and public sectors. She spent five years in non-profit management for the Center for Citizen Initiatives in San Francisco, administering a US State Department Small and Medium Enterprise business management training program for Russia-based business owners in the US. She also worked for the non-profit, the Intercultural Institute of California providing English and job training to immigrants to the US.

In the private sector she worked as a trade specialist for Sovereign Borders Solutions and also for JBC International in Washington DC, where she was responsible for lobbying Congress on international trade issues. She also served as a manager at Accenture, in Talent and Organization Management.

Courtenay has her B.A. degree in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and her M.A. degree in Commercial Diplomacy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. She has served as a Board Member on the San Mateo Mother's Club and the Oakland Nahodka Sister City Association.