Tiffany Naiman is the director of music industry programs and an assistant teaching professor at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, as well as a lecturer in the department of musicology. She is a feminist scholar of aging and disability in popular music and a leading David Bowie scholar. Tiffany is also a film and music curator and produces music documentaries and LGBTQ films. Her scholarly expertise extends to music videos, experimental film and music, LGBTQ film and music, music documentaries, electronic dance music and popular music, music festivals, and sustainability in the music industry.

Naiman’s writing has appeared in “Blackstar Rising, Purple Rain” (2026), “The Oxford Handbook of the Television Musical (2026), “The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis” (2019), “Popular Music and the Politics of Hope: Queer and Feminist Interventions” (2019), “Heart and Soul: Critical Essays on Joy Division” (2018),  “Enchanting David Bowie: Space/Time/Body/Memory” (2015), and “David Bowie: Critical Perspectives” (2015).

Tiffany is also a DJ and electronic musician performing under the moniker NeonGray1; Head of Music, Audio, and Performance programming at the Big Bear Film Festival and Institute; curatorial consultant for the 2025 Deep Tropics a music, arts, and style festival and the Deep Culture Sustainability Summit; Co-Curator of LA River Arts 2025 program “Kiki’ing with the River”; creator of a multiplicity of club nights and one-off musical events in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Philadelphia; and an award-winning documentary film producer. Tiffany serves on the boards of FEMME HOUSE, The 100 Percenters, and Theatre Exile.