Community Care &

Public Engagement:

What does it mean to create brave spaces?

JUNE 1st 2PM-4PM EST via Zoom

Sponsored as part of BRIDGE’s Inclusive Leadership Cohort, this IAH workshop will feature Dr. Brea Heidelberg. She will facilitate a conversation on what it means to create brave spaces. She will define key terms, provide an overview of the skills necessary to create and maintain brave spaces, and help participants avoid common pitfalls as they begin or continue this important work within their organizations.

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About Dr. Heidelberg

Brea M. Heidelberg is an arts management educator, consultant, and researcher focusing on the intersection of the arts and other fields of study. She sees arts administrators as intellectual translators and works to instill a respect for both theory and practice in her students and clients. She has served the field as Vice President of the Association of Arts Administration Educators, Co-Chair of Americans for the Arts’ Emerging Leaders Council, and on the editorial board of the American Journal of Arts Management.

Dr. Heidelberg earned her PhD in Arts Administration, Education and Policy from The Ohio State University. Her research interests include professional development issues facing arts administrators, arts advocacy rhetoric, and (inter)national cultural diplomacy. In addition to earning a MA in Arts Policy and Administration from The Ohio State University, she also earned a MS in Human Resource Development from Villanova University. Her current research interests involve the professionalization of the field of arts management, the training and development of arts managers, and management issues unique to small and midsized nonprofit arts organizations. Past projects include investigations into arts policy and advocacy rhetoric at the state and federal levels. In her consulting practice Dr. Heidelberg addresses issues such as employee recruitment and retention, organizational structuring, and succession planning.