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Meet Our New Pura Vida Coordinator: Heather Sand


Heather comes to us from a social services background; she has worked in homeless shelters for the last 20 years, supporting her community members in creating a better life for themselves and their families. She’s excited to combine her love of helping her community with her passion for fitness. Heather has been working as a personal trainer, fitness instructor, and CNA for the past five years. She calls working at HealthFinders the “perfect storm” to merge these interests. At HFC, Heather teaches Zumba classes and coordinates the entire Pura Vida fitness and nutrition program. Although she has only been here for a short time, Heather has developed strong relationships with her co-workers, and raves about how much every member of the HFC team cares about the people they serve. She loves seeing how excited her clients get about changes happening in their lives, whether it be improving access to healthcare, the sense of community they feel in their exercise classes, or the work done in the clinic setting. Heather was especially excited about a Zumba participant of hers who lost ten pounds and is close to being off diabetes medicine. We are so excited to have Heather at HFC and we hope you join us in giving her a warm welcome!

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