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In Conversation with: Brooke Garber Neidich

Brooke Garber Neidich is 68, but age isn’t anywhere near the subject line when talking with her. The words: indefatigable, intelligent, giving, endlessly chic and warm are more to the point. If we had to man the lifeboats, Brooke is someone we would want along for the ride because she would bring her grace to turbulent seas and we would all feel safer in her company. We just had to ask questions about how Brooke grew to be Brooke….

Give us an overview of your career.

I was in college in the in the late 60s–I marched, I believed, but in the end, all I ever wanted to do was get married and have children. I had no real ambition. I’ve lived lots of places. Of course, I always worked, I had to work, but none of them were a calling or a career. I came to everything really late, after I was 31 and married, I had our son and in a sense that settled me, my adult life began. It didn’t matter what else I did, I was a wife and a mother, life was based around children and Daniel, hearth and home. Now that my children are grown, sometimes I say

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Heart of Gold

Last November, at a gala dinnerat Cipriani 42nd Street in New York, the woman seated to my left and the one seated to my right were both wearing feathery drop earrings from the Chicago jeweler Sidney Garber. Coincidence? Hardly. And no doubt there were several more pairs just like them glittering among the other 800 guests who had gathered to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Child Mind Institute, an organization committed to treating childhood psychiatric and learning disorders. “Brooke gave me some pieces to wear during Fashion Week,” Alina Cho, a former CNN correspondent, told me. Cho couldn’t bear to give the earrings back—so she bought them.

“Brooke” is Brooke Garber Neidich, who cofounded the Child Mind Institute with the psychiatrist Harold S. Koplewicz and who that night was presenting an award to her close friend Hillary Rodham Clinton. Though unassuming in every way, save the amount of jewelry she tends to have on her person at any given moment, Neidich is a powerhouse in New York cultural, political, and philanthropic circles (she is also the co-cha