Brosius joins Darla Moore School’s Folks Center

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Karen Brosius, the former executive director of the Columbia Museum of Art, is the new executive director for the Folks Center for International Business at the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business.

Brosius was named executive director of the museum in 2004 and left in 2017 to become president of the Careers through Culinary Arts Program, a national nonprofit headquartered in New York City that empowers underserved youth through the culinary arts. Previously, she spent 21 years as a senior philanthropy, corporate affairs and communications executive at Altria Group in New York.

“We are pleased to welcome Karen Brosius to the Moore School,” former S.C. Gov. Jim Hodges, chairman of the Folks Center board, said in a news release. “Her experiences in the business and nonprofit worlds should be strong assets for the Folks Center and its major initiatives.

“The Folks Center is focused on strengthening the Moore School’s ties with global business leaders and making its students and faculty important resources in addressing global business challenges.”