[3] She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism, with a minor in film studies, from the University of Colorado in 2003.
[4] Heber began working as a local entertainment reporter at the Palm Springs, California CBS television network affiliate KPSP-LP, a low-power television station known as "CBS 2", though broadcast on UHF channel 38.
Entertainment Television (hosting 20 Hippest Hot Spots and doing music-news reporting) and MSNBC, as well for as the local Fox Broadcasting affiliate, KDFX-CA.
Other assignments included work for the syndicated entertainment-news program Access Hollywood and the morning show Good Day L.A.. She was also a morning co-host for on the Palm Springs radio station KPSI-FM.
She left the network in May 2007 to become host of the Fox amateur-filmmaker competition, On the Lot.