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Karen Brooks Hopkins is President of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where she has worked since 1979. Hopkins was previously Chair of the Cultural Institutions Group (CIG), which consists of 33 prominent New York City cultural institutions. She is an active member and former chair of the Performing Arts Center Consortium, a national association of performing arts centers. Hopkins also serves on the Board of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, an economic development advocacy organization devoted to promoting the growth of the greater Downtown Brooklyn area. In 2005, Hopkins received the Encore Award in Arts Management Excellence from the Arts & Business Council of New York and in 2007 was named one of the “100 Most Influential Women in New York City Business” by Crain’s. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she received her MFA from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She lives in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn.