Brea M. Heidelberg is associate professor in the Arts & Entertainment Enterprise Department at Drexel University. She is also founder and principal of ISO Arts Consulting, a firm focusing on equity-centered coaching, executive searches, human resources solutions, organizational assessments, and workshops for arts and cultural organizations. Heidelberg’s primary research focuses on industrial psychology in arts and creative environments and organizations. Her forthcoming book Human Resources in the Arts focuses on how to create and maintain cultural organizations that are humane and equitable. She is also interested in how class, gender, and race are presented in popular culture in ways that reflect and reject societal norms and harms. Her work includes a critique of Hamilton’s color-blind casting in Global Hip Hop Studies and a forthcoming chapter (coauthored with Justin D Burton) in Hip-Hop and American Literature on Black women overwriting phallocentric songs with lyrics centering their desires.
