Heather Smith is a wellness trends expert and founder of theHAUTEbar, serving up the most inspiring + innovative better-for-you food, beverage, body, active and  lifestyle products. She is a national TV news contributor to NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, Cheddar News, was sourced in the The New York Times story on the Cauliflower trend and brings custom pop-up wellness events to the X Games.

From the hyper local to global perspective, Heather shares bites of insight with a side of creative acumen that only a trends junkie, industry insider and science expert could.

She is a professor of Digital Storytelling at University of Colorado, Boulder, was named top 40 UNDER 40 by BizWest, and winner of EXPO’s best public relations campaign of the year award. She holds a Masters degree in Biochemical & Molecular Nutrition from Tufts University, and Bachelors degree in Exercise Physiology from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she was a Division One ski racer and rower, and student fellow in the Olympic Training Center’s Physiology Lab.

Heather LIVES where she lives with her husband and 3 boys in Boulder, Colorado, a place where the line between work and play is beautifully blurred.