About

About Heather Mistretta

I have more than 30 years of professional writing and editing experience as well as extensive experience in all aspects of communications (including website content creation, planning, media relations, video scripting, book editing & publishing, marketing and nonprofit development and leadership). In March 2026, I also became certified by the Institute of Integrative Nutrition as a health coach!

I have launched a newsletter; managed a team of journalists; written for a worldwide news service where I also helped to create the electricity reporting desk; acted as assistant editor for an alumni magazine where I also spearheaded the first women's forum and regularly wrote press releases; and co-founded a non-profit in 2013 called Women & Girls Education-International of which I am president. Since 2022, I have served on the board of the Native American Inter-Tribal Caucus.​

I am also the founder of the former Expanded Horizons Tutoring, where the inception of Pressing Releases first began when parents of tutees asked me about writing services for themselves after seeing such improvement in their children's writing. It seemed like a natural fit.

Concurrently, I have volunteered for social services, tutored math and English to junior high school students in Washington, DC, and taught English as a second language to a Taiwanese minister...all the while jotting down my thoughts in several journals including my favorite one created by my son...but perhaps my story is best told through my blogging. Within my blogs, I have woven in my philosophies, motivations. passions and what drives me to write!