Heidi Twitchell
Board Member
Heidi is a veteran teacher, having taught elementary school for ten years in Utah and California. She earned her B.S. in Elementary Education at Brigham Young University, completed master’s coursework at California State University, San Marcos, and holds specializations in Gifted Education and Multicultural Education. As a former child actress with an enormous love for teaching, she is passionate about the visual and performing arts and their role in education and has been a driving force in arts education advocacy. Heidi has a tremendous passion for serving our most vulnerable, including our unhoused neighbors and our underprivileged, unaccompanied, and at-risk youth. With her adorable husband and four fabulous kids, she has spent time building homes for parents and children in remote villages south of the border and has found these experiences to bring just as much joy and comfort to her as they have to the families served. In 2017, Heidi’s professional focus shifted to all things “home” when she began working in real estate. She has since joined the Redfin team, where she works with Redfin Rise to affect positive change in the Los Angeles and Orange County communities. She serves on the Education, MLS, and Local Government Relations committees for Orange County Realtors. She is working with local nonprofit organizations to learn as much as possible about the housing crisis, affordable housing, and efforts to address homelessness. As she learns the ropes in these areas with aspirations of affecting real and lasting change, she also continues to have a huge heart for those who have yet to find their place in this world and therefore, could not be more eager to get started serving, to the very best of her ability, the children and families at McKinley.
