Dr. Heidi Beverine-Curry is a co-founder and chief academic officer for The Reading League, where she oversees the professional development department and designs, supervises, and delivers educator learning opportunities for more than 60 partnering school districts. Dr. Beverine-Curry is frequently invited to speak about the science of reading and has presented widely at conferences and events across the U.S. and internationally. Before beginning work for The Reading League full time in 2019, she spent 21 years working in public schools, where she made use of her certifications in elementary education, K–12 special education, and K–12 reading education. When Dr. Beverine-Curry began her doctoral coursework in reading education in 2006, she became a champion for evidence-aligned literacy instruction and has led a number of successful reform efforts. She was an adjunct professor at Syracuse University and SUNY Oswego, where she specialized in teaching clinical reading intervention coursework.