Cheryl Heiberg-Kamen attended P.S. 102 and Lutheran Elementary School. She then went on to attend Fort Hamilton High School and graduated in 1977. Following graduation, she went to Norway and then returned to the United States, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology and Religion at Gettysburg College. In 1984, she earned a Master's Degree in Social Work at Fordham University. She was appointed as a member of the New York State Board of Regents and received a Certification in Social Work as a Case Social Worker. She attended Hunter College and earned a second Master's Degree in Aging in 1992. She has proudly served as the Executive Director of the Bay Ridge Center for Older Adults/Center for Community Services from 1988 to the present. Previous occupations included Director of Southwest Brooklyn Senior Services and Social Worker for the Bay Ridge Nutrition and Home Care. Cheryl has been involved in the Bay Ridge Council on Aging, Bay Ridge Lions Club, Bay Ridge Business and Professional Women's Club, and as President of the Bay Ridge Community Council. She is presently a member of the Board of Directors for the Council of Senior Centers & Services in New York City.

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Honors range from being recognized by many Bay Ridge politicians for her outstanding services to the Bay Ridge Community to being a recipient of the President's Award of the Bay Ridge Community as well as the Melvin Jones Fellowship for Dedicated Humanitarian Services by the Lions Clubs, International. Her interest ranges from social work to involvement in local, state, and federal conferences in promoting services to the Aging. One of her major accomplishments was to work with community activists and legislators to fund a Capital Campaign, which replaced the Bay Ridge Center's (The Center for Older Adults and The Center for Community Services) four decades of old Meals on Wheels delivery sedans with new four wheel drive vehicles and three aged transportation vans with new minibuses.

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Cheryl is quoted as saying that she "loved her four years at Fort Hamilton, enjoyed her years of volunteer service in the school library, and her participation in the National Honor Society and Mr. Sulu's Chorus. She is proud to join the Alumni Association. It has been her joy and privilege to have the opportunity to work and serve in the community she loves and has lived in for most of her life."​​

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