Dr. Heath is the Director of the Economics Center at the University of Cincinnati and the President of the Ohio Council on Economic Education.
·         Prior to coming to UC, Dr. Heath spent 26 years at the University of Memphis.
·         She received a Visiting Research Fellowship to Princeton University to conduct research in economics education and has published extensively in the area.
·         She is the author or co-author of over 40 academic articles.
·         She received a Rockefeller Foundation grant to study women and poverty.
·         While at Memphis she won several teaching awards, including the Carnegie Foundation U.S. Professor of the Year Award for Tennessee; the economics discipline’s highest award, the Kenneth G. Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award; and received the Educator of the Year Award from the National Association for Financial Literacy, both in 2008. She has received the University of Memphis’ Thomas W. Briggs Foundation’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Distinguished Teaching Award.
·         She was named the 2006 Financial Educator of the Year by the Tennessee Bankers Association.
·         Dr. Heath started the Smart Tennessee program, a statewide financial literacy program for K-8 students.
·         Dr. Heath received her Ph.D. in Economics at the University of South Carolina.
·         She was a member of the national Board of Directors of the Council for Economic Education and is a member of the Economics Standing Committee of the National Assessment of Education Progress.
·         Dr. Heath led the two national committees charged by the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability with integrating financial literacy in the Common Core.
·         She was named as a Money Magazine “Money Hero” for August, 2013.
·         Dr. Heath received the Alumni Professional Achievement Award from Bluffton University, 2012.
·         She was named a “Woman of Influence” by Venue and LEAD magazines, Cincinnati, 2014.