Heather Ingersoll, PhD, is the executive director of the Godly Play Foundation. She joined the Godly Play Foundation as the Executive Director in the Fall of 2020. She earned a PhD in Education from Seattle Pacific University and an MA in Family Life Education from Concordia University. She has worked for several Christian churches supporting children's ministry programs, served as a professor of early childhood education and taught courses in child development, positive psychology, spirituality in the schools, and children's ministry. She lives in Wilsonville, Oregon.