Heather Heying Bio | Wiki
Heather Heying is an American evolutionary biologist, former professor, and author. She came to national attention following the Evergreen State College protests in 2017. Heying became associated with the informal group known as the intellectual dark web and testified at the US Department of Justice forum on Free Speech on College Campuses in 2018.
She served as a professor of biology at Evergreen State College in Washington State until 2017. Her doctoral research focused on the evolutionary ecology and sexual selection of Mantella laevigata, a Madagascan poison frog. In addition to papers on the reproductive evolutionary adaptations of frogs, Heying has also published a popular work describing her graduate student research in Madagascar, Antipode: Seasons with the Extraordinary Wildlife and Culture of Madagascar.
Heather Heying Age
Heying was born on April 26, 1969, in Santa Cruz, California, United States. She is 53 years old.
Heather Heying Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 4 in (Approx. 1.62 m).
Heather Heying Family
She was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California by her parents Douglas Heying and Jessie Carolyn. Heying’s father was a successful computer engineer. She holds an American nationality and belongs to the white ethnicity.
Heather Heying Husband
Heying is married to her husband Bret Weinstein, a fellow professor of biology at Evergreen. The two serve as the hosts of a weekly podcast, the Darkhorse Podcast on his YouTube channel.
Heather Heying Education
Following her high school education, Heying attended the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1990. She graduated in 1992 with a BA in Anthropology. In 2001, she received a PH.D. in Biology from the University of Michigan.
Heather Heying Podcast
She serves as the co-host of a weekly podcast, the Darkhorse Podcast, alongside her husband on his YouTube channel. Heying was a 2019–2020 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, a fellowship that continued for the 2020–2021 year. With Weinstein, she presented a theory on the evolutionary adaptation of consciousness on 29 April 2020.
Heather Heying Bret Weinstein
Bret Weinstein and Heying, have written a fascinating new book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, which Penguin Random House released in September. The instant New York Times bestseller became riddled with interesting ideas and clever insights, ultimately arriving at a radical conclusion about how humanity must be governed in the future if we are to avoid civilizational collapse.
However, the book’s concluding argument is built upon one fundamental economic fallacy, and to understand the flaw in the proposal is to understand how truly catastrophic the pursuit of Weinstein and Heying’s vision would be.
Heather Heying Evergreen State
Student protests at Evergreen State College disrupted the campus, including one altercation between protesters and Heying’s husband and fellow professor of biology at Evergreen, Bret Weinstein. In July 2017, a yeAR AFTER, the pair brought a lawsuit against the college; the $3.85 million suits alleged the college failed to “protect its employees from repeated provocative and corrosive verbal and written hostility based on race, as well as threats of physical violence.”
A settlement was reached in September 2017, in which both Heying and Weinstein resigned, and received $250,000 each. After her resignation, Heying has written articles and opinion pieces related to evolution and cultural politics for journals and newspapers such as The New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Heather Heying Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Heying’s estimated net worth is $1 million.
Who Is Heather Heying
Heying is an American evolutionary biologist, former professor, and author. She came to national attention following the Evergreen State College protests in 2017. Heying became associated with the informal group known as the intellectual dark web.