Ken Brecher

President, Library Foundation of Los Angeles

Biography

Ken Brecher is the President of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. He was formerly the Executive Director of the Sundance Institute. He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University and is an honors graduate of Cornell.  



An anthropologist by training, Mr. Brecher has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, including a Ford Foundation Fellowship for his study of Amazonian tribesmen in Brazil. He is the author of Too Sad to Sing, A Memoir with Postcards and edited the classic work, Xingu: The Indians and Their Myths.