# TAYN Ep. 71 - Heather May

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Podcast: [These Are Your Neighbors](https://stenobird.com/podcast/these-are-your-neighbors-6714181)
Published: 2025-12-16T03:33:49+00:00
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Heather was raised in Youngstown, Ohio. She moved to the northwest corner of the state to earn her B.A. in Latin and Classical Art History at Bowling Green State University.During that time she was a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve.Heather moved to Dayton, Ohio, where she would live for 20 years. Heather was hired at Technicolor Cinema Services in their Wilmington, Ohio production facility. After 5 years with Technicolor, she was hired at University of Dayton in their Department of Teacher Education. During Heather’s time at UD, she volunteered for the Marianist Environmental Education Center and coordinated their annual art and education show. Her world religions coursework led to attending a Buddhist women’s conference in Mongolia, her first trip to Asia. She hiredand managed the graduate assistants for her department, and volunteered for eventshosting international students. Heather joined the Peace Corps and went to China in June of 2013. Heather was a Peace Corps volunteer teaching oral English to future English teachers. She learned that teaching and training adults is her jam. She served on internal PeaceCorps committees for peer professional support for teaching and edited the PC China gender equality and women’s empowerment monthly newsletter. She led ‘Teaching inEnglish’ training for her university’s faculty and local middle and high school teachers. During her winter breaks, she stayed at Dhamma Moli, a Buddhist nunnery in Yangon,Myanmar, run by the Buddhist sisters she had met in Ohio, teaching English to nunswho were working on their PhDs. During service she earned Peace Corps’ TEFL(Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Certificate, and at the end of her service in2016, she accepted a 3-month position as a TEFL Technical Trainer for the new cohort…

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