Heather Carleton

Heather Carleton is a huge fan of FACT Oregon and all this organization does for families experiencing disability across Oregon. She’s been attending FACT workshops and informational events since shortly after she and her family moved to Ashland Oregon in 2015. She is a self and family advocate, a mom and wife, a leader, and a listener. Her superpower is connecting folks within her community to resources and each other. During her twenty-year career in the entertainment industry, she brought people together through artistic expression. From the Nickelodeon compound in Hollywood, California, to the stages of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, she witnessed lives being enriched through fun and community building. Now that Southern Oregon is her permanent home, she has found a new avenue to assist individuals in their efforts to have an enriched life. She is already loosely woven into the support structure of the disability community, as a parent of children experiencing disability. She hopes to tighten the threads that bind her to this heart work, and in partnership with FACT, Oregon will continue to do so with an awareness of those additionally experiencing racial and financial in-Equities. She is honored to work alongside these amazing advocates, and alongside you.