Heather Duplaisir is a Master’s graduate of Science in Recreation at San Francisco State University where her focus is on sustainable tourism. She has worked for Global Exchange Reality Tours as a Research Fellow under Malia Everette where she first began to study socially responsible tourism. She created a survey for Reality Tour participants in the summer of 2012 to examine if socially responsible tourism leads to advocacy. She presented her findings in September 2012 at the Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism Conference 2012 in Monterey, California. During the summer of 2012 she was awarded a full scholarship for an Outdoor Educator Course through the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). She travelled to the Yukon with NOLS where she backpacked and whitewater canoed for a month in the wilderness while learning leadership and wilderness skills. In 2013 she worked as an assistant to the Travel Director of the Commonwealth Travel Club where she created a Sustainability Initiative and continued to work with Malia as a research associate developing program materials for Altruvistas. She is also in sales for Bay Area Green Tours, a local tour company that provides educational tours about sustainability around the Bay Area. Her final Masters project is to research socially responsible tourism on a tour in November with Altruvistas and Amazon Watch in Ecuador. She plans to publish her findings in The Journal of Sustainable Tourism. She is an avid traveler who has been to South East Asia, Canada, Central America, Europe, and the Caribbean where she loves to scuba dive, hike, soak in hot springs, and learn about holistic customs of local communities.