Owner & Publisher

Heather is the owner and founder of the SunriseGuide and the Green & Healthy Maine magazines where she has been helping to grow the green economy in Maine for more than 20 years. She currently serves on the board of passivhausMAINE and the Maine Community Bank Charitable Foundation and is an advisory trustee of Portland Trails and the Presumpscot Regional Land Trust. She is Past President of the board of Discover Downtown Westbrook. Heather is a graduate of the 10ksb entrepreneurship program at Babson College, the Institute for Civic Leadership and Maine’s Top Gun business acceleration program, and served for two years in the AmeriCorps National Service program in Denver. She is passionate about outdoor adventure, art, local foods and community. In her spare time, you’ll find Heather exploring Maine by bicycle and shrinking the grass in her yard by building new gardens every year.

Contributing Editor • Graphic Design & Marketing Specialist

Raine Raynor is a contributor and editor at Green & Healthy Maine. She is also the in house graphic design and marketing specialist. Her other creative interests include photography, collage and landscape architecture. She has previously worked as a graphic designer for nonprofits including Portland Parks Conservancy, Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake, and College Guild. She is a graduate of Bowdoin College and currently lives in Portland.

Account Executive

Originally from Falmouth and a self-described fifth-generation true Yankee thrifter, Cheryl is a lifelong environmentalist and an active community volunteer in greater Portland. She has served as a Leader of Mom to Mom of Maine (where she started a Green Living group); past President of her daughter’s school PTA (where she won a grant to have recycling and compost bins made for the lunchroom and another to install a new and bigger bike rack); a Girl Scout Leader and Portland’s Girl Scout Manager; and a past president of the North Deering Neighborhood Association. She has volunteered with the Environmental Health Strategy Center, testifying at the Maine legislature against chemicals in children’s products, and served on the Children’s Health Advisory Board. Cheryl lives in Portland with her husband and two daughters. She loves to be surrounded by family and nature, and to carry on the camping, hiking and Yankee thrift traditions with which she was raised.