Karen Brooks Hopkins

A.R.T.: Debut. Select Theatre: Sabbath Theater; Martha Wainwright Sings Laura Nyro, Joe’s Pub. Author: Successful Fundraising for Arts and Culture Organizations; BAM…And Then It Hit Me. President of Brooklyn Academy of Music from 1999-2015 (employed from 1979); Senior Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2015-2017). Board Member: Onassis Foundation (Senior Advisor), Jerome L. Greene Foundation, State Board of Regents. Awards: One of the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York (2013), Crain’s Hall of Fame (2015). Education: Honorary degrees from St. Francis College, Long Island University, Pratt Institute, Columbia University.