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* Providing engineering services in these locations through SWCA Environmental Consulting & Engineering, Inc., an affiliate of SWCA.
From the experts we hire, to the clients we partner with, our greatest opportunity for success lies in our ability to bring the best team together for every project.
That’s why:
At SWCA, sustainability means balancing humanity’s social, economic, and environmental needs to provide a healthy planet for future generations.
SWCA employs smart, talented, problem-solvers dedicated to our purpose of preserving natural and cultural resources for tomorrow while enabling projects that benefit people today.
At SWCA, you’re not just an employee. You’re an owner. Everyone you work with has a stake in your success, so your hard work pays off – for the clients, for the company, and for your retirement goals.
Heather Gibson is the Vice President for SWCA’s Southern California and Pacific Islands subregion, which includes our offices in Honolulu, Pasadena, and San Diego.
Heather brings a unique set of skills and breadth of experience to this role, including success at building an organization to scale, leading a diverse team, and excellence in strategic thinking and problem-solving. After earning a Ph.D. in anthropology at Syracuse University, Heather taught at the university and elementary school levels prior to moving into environmental consulting, where she led a team and managed large cultural resources contracts at another consulting firm.
Heather joined SWCA in 2014 as an archaeological principal investigator, bringing her expertise in historical archaeology to major projects such as the San Gabriel Trench archaeological data recovery. As a Cultural Resources Director and Senior Director at SWCA from 2017 to 2023, Heather has grown the Southern California cultural resources team more than four-fold to be the largest such team in California at any firm.