Brooke Jackman Foundation Read-a-Thon

Reading was Brooke Jackman’s passion. At 23, she was planning to leave her job in finance to get a graduate degree in social work and help underprivileged children, but she was killed on Sept. 11 before she could realize her dreams. This annual event, held by a foundation her family established to support her goals, gathers a variety of participants — this year they include Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro, firefighters, the children’s author Stephanie Calmenson and Broadway performers — to read from children’s books.