Donna Lee Halper (born February 14, 1947, in Dorchester, Massachusetts)[1] is a Boston-based historian and radio consultant.

Beginning in 1968, Halper worked as a radio disc jockey and music director, and is credited with discovering the progressive rock band Rush while at WMMS in Cleveland in 1974.

She taught part-time at Emerson College, in the journalism department and the Institute of Liberal Arts until the summer of 2008, when she accepted a position as assistant professor of communication at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[16] Halper is credited with discovering the rock band Rush while working as the Music Director at radio station WMMS in Cleveland in 1974.

After a Canadian record producer gave her the then-unknown band's album, she played a track called “Working Man” on the air.

Soon, other radio stations began including Rush songs in their playlists, and by late summer of 1974, the band got a U.S. recording contract.