Hop Hopkins

Local Contexts Executive Director

Hop (he/him) is a social movement strategist and scholar who has spearheaded social justice campaigns for over 25 years. Hop received his bachelor’s degree from New College of California as a graduate in the Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Communities program and earned his master’s Degree in Urban Sustainability at Antioch University, Los Angeles, where he also served as a Climate Justice Fellow and adjunct professor. 

For the past decade, Hop has focused his movement work on building a multiracial united front at the intersections of land, Indigenous sovereignty, reparations, and Black liberation. These efforts aim to dismantle and move away from the past and ongoing legacies of colonialism and extractivism towards regenerative and life-affirming worldviews and life-ways where time, nature, and the cosmos are experienced as deeply interconnected and interdependent.