Executive Director
Hop (he/him) is a social movement strategist and scholar who has spearheaded social justice campaigns for over 25 years.
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.
Most recently, Hop was the Executive Director of WildEarth Guardians where he led an organizational restructuring and cultural realignment along Jemez Principles and Resilience-Based Organizing. He has been a leader in movements from HIV/AIDS to global justice, food sovereignty, housing security and the clean energy Just Transition through organizing, popular education and narrative strategy, grassroots campaigns, and participatory democracy.
Born in Dallas, Texas, Hop received his bachelor’s degree from New College of California as a graduate in the Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Communities program with a focus on natural building. He has earned a certificate of completion from the Leadership, Organizing and Action Program at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Executive Education and a certificate in the Art of Leadership from the Rockwood Leadership Institute.
He 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. He serves on the Advisory Board for the California-based Environmental Leadership initiative, is board trustee for the Midland School, sits on the Los Angeles Food Policy Council’s Leadership Circle and serves as a board member for the movement support organization, Social Movement Technologies. Additionally, he has served on the boards of the Community Coalition for Environmental Justice, Western States Center, and People’s College of Law.
He and his wife of twenty-two years homeschooled their daughters on an urban micro-farm inhabited by their Australian Cattle Dogs, chickens, honey bees, fruit trees, and multiple compost piles.
