Service Learning Spotlight - Heidi Brady, Ph.D.

Dr. Heidi Brady is an Associate Professor in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences and is the Director of the Texas Tech Therapeutic Riding Center. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in Equine Assisted Therapy as well as directs the Texas Tech Ranch Horse Program. Dr. Brady received her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and is a Diplomat in Animal Physiology in the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists. She has been teaching her Service-based Learning class, Principles of Hippotherapy, for ten years.  She is a NARHA (North American Riding for the Handicapped Association) Registered Therapeutic Riding Instructor, and has been appointed to Chair the NARHA Educational Publications Task Force. 

Previously, she has served on the NARHA Higher Education Committee, and has been the Editor of the NARHA Higher Education Voice. Selected as one of 13 USDA Exemplary Teachers in Service-Based Learning and was nominated by Texas Tech University for the Campus Compact's 2008 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning.  She is the 2008 nominee for the Spencer Wells Creativity in Teaching Award by the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.  Presented or co-authored over ten peer reviewed presentations nationally on hippotherapy and service learning within agricultural sciences and presented many additional lectures and posters on this topic at Texas Tech University.