Heather Moore’s professional background includes business immigration and global corporate finance law, as well as policy advocacy and international human rights. Ms. Moore currently concentrates in the representation of EB-5 Immigrant Investors and EB-5 Regional Centers.
Prior to joining Miller Mayer, Heather practiced complex structured finance, investments and securities law on Wall Street at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP. During her Milbank career, she served on assignment in Singapore and India and played a pivotal role in expanding the firm’s diversity initiatives, as co-chair of the Associates of African Descent Affinity Group. Heather launched her career in private and public international law in Washington, D.C. as a paralegal at the leading law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, and subsequently served as Confidential Assistant to the General Counsel at Peace Corps headquarters. Thereafter, she served as Global Operations Officer for the Centre for Development and Population Activities, an international not-for-profit organization, specializing in health, democracy and governance and micro-finance initiatives for women. Heather was twice appointed by the Department of State to the U.S. delegation headed by the Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women at the Women and Democracy Conference in Estonia and Lithuania. As a former Equal Justice Foundation and Ella Baker Scholar at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City, Heather advocated for the promotion and protection of international human rights, as well as government and corporate accountability on behalf of South African apartheid victims.
A two-time recipient of the MFY Legal Services, Inc. Partner in Justice Award for exemplary pro bono service, Heather’s pro brono work includes the representation of Haitian immigrants under the Temporary Protected Status project sponsored by the Legal Aid Society, families confronting homelessness, domestic violence survivors and private placement adoption cases. Heather currently serves on the Boards of the Women’s Opportunity Center in Ithaca and the Finger Lakes Chapter of the New York State Women’s Bar Association. She is a member of the New York State and Tompkins County Bar Associations. Heather is a former International Summer Scholar of La Pontificia Universidad, Quito, Ecuador. She holds a B.S. in International Law, Relations and Organizations from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law.