Heather A. McKay is the Director of the Sloan Center on Innovative Training and Workforce Development as well as the Director of Innovative Training and Workforce Development Programs at the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University. In this capacity Heather currently directs an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded project that provides technical assistance and resources to states to scale up a New Jersey pilot project of online learning for low wage workers throughout the country. Heather is also currently working on an evaluation program funded by the Nicholson Foundation focusing on offender reentry and the education system. Heather completed her BA at Bryn Mawr College in 2004 she has an MA in World History and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Global Affairs at Rutgers University.