Award-winning, interdisciplinary artist, storyteller, author, and educator, Adair Heitmann, is selected by Gather the Women Global Matrix to be the final spoken word performer in their international Winter Tales Storyteller Series on March 16, 2025, 5pm EST. Her true story portrays the creative impact her godmother chosen-by-love, illustrator and author, Kazue Mizumura (1920-1996) had on her life.