# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heather-heying
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:21:09.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heather-heying"
name: "Heather Heying"
slug: "heather-heying"
description: "Heather E. Heying is an American evolutionary biologist, former professor, and author, who came to national attention following the Evergreen State College protests in 2017. She has been associated with the informal group known as the intellectual dark web and testified at the US Department of Justice forum on Free Speech on College Campuses in 2018. Heying opposed COVID-19 vaccines and promoted the unproven belief that the drug ivermectin is effective in treating the disease."
tagline: "American zoologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Heather_Heying_01_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Podcasters"
  slug: "podcasters"
profileType:
  name: "Podcaster"
  slug: "podcaster"
birthDate: "1969-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.7
  momentum:             0.7193241003277803
  historical:           4.041405333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 53
totalFollowers: 545000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/HeatherEHeying"
    handle:    "HeatherEHeying"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Actual.HeatherEHeying"
    handle:    "Actual.HeatherEHeying"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/heathereheying/"
    handle:    "heathereheying"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9908791/"
    handle:    "nm9908791"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://heatherheying.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Heying"
    title: "Heather Heying"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Heying"
    title: "Heather Heying"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Heying"
    title: "Heather Heying"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65937148"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2239693"
    title: "Heather Heying"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations