Heather Larkin Eason will be Scholar in Residence at Clinton School of Public Service
Heather Larkin Eason, a 1998 Bowen graduate, will be the Scholar in Residence at the Clinton School of Public Service April 20-24, 2009. Eason is the President and CEO of the Arkansas Community Foundation and has been on staff there since 1998, where she uses her law and accounting background to strengthen the Foundation and to build philanthropic funds for the benefit of Arkansas. Eason is committed to improving the state and enjoys helping people leave a legacy and give to the causes they care about.
In 2001, she was named a Hull Fellow and attended the Hull Leadership Program, a program to nurture and inspire the Southeast's next generation of philanthropic leaders. In 2005, she was selected as one of five Americans to be a Transatlantic Community Foundation Fellow. The Fellowship enabled her to spend three weeks in Europe exploring issues of nonprofit governance, strategic planning, grantmaking, investments and public/private partnerships.
Eason is a native of Charleston, Arkansas, Hendrix College and Bowen Law School alumni and a member of Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church. She is a member of many organizations, including the Arkansas Bar Association, Arkansas Society of CPA's, Arkansas Women Executives and Central Arkansas Estate Council. She is a Past President of the Arkansas Council of the National Committee on Planned Giving, and a graduate of Greater Little Rock Leadership Class XIX.
