Eileen Strempel currently serves as the Inaugural Dean of UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music. Strempel relishes the joy of founding a “start-up company,” as the school is the first and only school of music in the University of California System, and recently formed as a result of a generous $30 million donation by trumpeter, producer, and artist Herb Alpert. As a trained opera singer and a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Strempel is also a nationally recognized champion for transfer students and views superb public education as one of the principal social justice issues of our time.
