In 2014, Heidi was released from the Washington Corrections Center for Women after spending nearly a decade wrongfully convicted for a crime that never occurred. Following her years of providing peer support to WashIP's Freed Family, Heidi joined Washington Innocence Project in 2021 as their Community Support Coordinator. Heidi serves on the exoneree advisory committee for both Exonerated Nation and Healing Justice where she has been trained in rigorous peer support and restorative justice skills. Additionally, she sits on numerous national Innocence Network steering committees that guide decisions and policies and serves as an Innocent Network Conference Ambassador, a program she helped to conceive and develop for The Innocence Network.