Former BAM President Pens Memoir

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Jan 20, 2022

Karen Brooks Hopkins joined the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1979 and became its president in 1999, until 2015. She reflects on her tenure in the memoir BAM. . . and Then It Hit Me. Hopkins joins us to discuss the institutions and her career.

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