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 in the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center before she could realize her dreams. This annual event, held by a foundation that 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.