About Leigh Hopkins
Leigh Hopkins is the Editor and Curator of Khôra, a dynamic online arts space conceived and produced in collaboration with author Lidia Yuknavitch and Corporeal Writing. Leigh was a columnist at The Rumpus, and her work has appeared in BOMB Magazine, Longreads, McSweeney’s, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, among other publications.
In 2010, Leigh left a career in social policy to move to Brazil, where she founded an online institute by rigging a satellite dish to a boulder in a banana field. Before upending her life in the U. S. , Leigh was the Vice President for Education of a leading social policy think tank, Leigh was a leader in the design, development, and implementation of the after school literacy program model Youth Education for Tomorrow (YET), which was referenced by President Obama in the New York Times as an example of what’s possible in community-based institutions.