US Senator Heidi Heitkamp served as the first female senator elected from North Dakota between 2013 and 2019. While in the Senate, she prioritized improving the lives of Indigenous people and working families, stopping human trafficking, guaranteeing affordable health care, addressing childhood trauma, eliminating unnecessary regulation, and securing an energy policy that kept costs low but achieved climate goals. She was previously North Dakota’s attorney general and tax commissioner.
Heitkamp serves on numerous boards including those of The McCain Institute, The Howard Buffett Foundation, the Restore Democracy Initiative, and GMF. She is the founder and chair of the One Country Project, an organization focused on addressing the needs and concerns of rural America, and director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago. She is also a contributor to CNBC and ABC News.