Jessica Hopper is the Editorial Director for Music at MTV. Her music and culture criticism has regularly appeared in GQ, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and the Chicago Tribune. She was previously a senior editor at Pitchfork and the music editor at Rookie. Her essays have appeared in Best Music Writing for 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, and 2011. Hopper was the longtime music consultant for This American Life. She is, most recently, the author of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic. He first book The Girls' Guide to Rocking was named one of 2009's Notable Books For Young Readers by the American Library Association. She lives in Chicago with her husband and young sons.
This is a FREE, all-ages speaking event! Doors open at 6:45.
This show is a collaboration between WUD Music, the UW National Organization for Women, and the UW Campus Women's Center. See you there!
