Brea M. Heidelberg, PhD

Dr. Heidelberg is an organizational management consultant, educator, and researcher. She is currently an Assistant Professor for the undergraduate Entertainment & Arts Management Program at Drexel University. Brea has served as Vice President and the chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion task force on the board of the Association of Arts Administration Educators and currently serves as a Steering Committee Member of the Cultural Research Network. Brea’s research and consulting work centers on human resources issues and organizational structuring in the nonprofit arts. She conducts all her work through an equity lens. She has a varied background that includes experiences as a dancer and choreographer as well as positions in community engagement and programming at both visual and performing arts organizations. Dr. Heidelberg has completed specialized training in evaluation at Claremont Graduate School. She also earned her master’s in Human Resource Development from Villanova University and her doctorate in Arts Administration, Education, and Policy from The Ohio State University.