Assistant Professor
Directer, Center for Entrepreneurship

Dr. Heather Dixon-Fowler is an Assistant Professor in the Management Department and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Appalachian State University. She teaches a variety of entrepreneurship courses and supervises the entrepreneurship summer internships. She developed the first undergraduate Social Entrepreneurship course in the College of Business and co-developed an entreprenuership Summer Study-Abroad Program in Vietnam. She earned a PhD in Business Administration with an emphasis in corporate strategy from the University of Arkansas where she also worked as part of the original team at the Applied Sustainability Center. She is particularly interested in bridging relationships between representatives from corporations, NGOs and the academic community. Her research on corporate social and environmental responsibility has been published in academic journals and has been recognized in Forbes and Business Week online.

Heather lives in Boone with her husband, two children, and three dogs.