Heather Adams

Heather Adams is a principal at Sova and an architect of learning mobility systems—where learner experience, policy, practice, and technology meet. She leads and supports multipartner initiatives that make transfer and credit movement more predictable and equitable, including the California Common Course Numbering Project, Michigan transfer pathways efforts, and national learning mobility collaborations (including the AI Transfer and Articulation Infrastructure Network and Transfer Nation California). Adams, who holds a doctorate in education, is known for translating complex policy and technical work into clear implementation steps and learner-ready guidance, and for convening cross-segment partners to move from alignment to action. She founded Transfer Nation, a national community advancing transfer as a core feature of higher education and strengthening the field through professional learning and shared problem-solving—so learning counts wherever it happens, and learners keep their momentum.