Business of Entertainment Rob Fields Weeksville Heritage Center

  Rob Fields brings over three decades of marketing, programming and cultural advocacy and general business experience to his work as an arts leader.  He is the founder of NBI Festival, a celebration of the Black people and ideas that are pushing contemporary culture forward.  Rob is the former president and executive director of Weeksville Heritage Center, the Brooklyn-based cultural center and historic house museum.  Over the course of his career, he’s been a marketer for big brands, cultural institutions and indie artists; a cultural programmer; a publisher of an online magazine for over a decade; and has written about the connection between marketing, business and contemporary culture for Forbes.com and Huffington Post, among the several outlets where his work has been published. http://RobFields.com