Heather Cunningham is the National Training Director of Think Tank Inc., a nonprofit challenging top-down approaches to poverty and working to amplify human stories and empower local change agents. Through poverty simulations and content guided by leaders with lived experience, Think Tank equips groups to rethink poverty and partner with those most affected to create lasting change.
Heather delivered this speech at Stand Together Foundation’s August 2022 Catalyst Summit in Denver, Colorado to an audience of over 300 nonprofit leaders. Heather shares her own personal story of transformation, and how Think Tank is elevating the unheard voices of people in poverty.