Will Hopkins

Will Hopkins is a lifelong New Hampshire resident who served for six years in the New Hampshire Army National Guard as an Infantryman, which included a year-long tour in Iraq and a short period in Louisiana responding to Hurricane Katrina. Will is a lifetime member and former board member of Veterans for Peace, and served as Executive Director of New Hampshire Peace Action from 2009 to 2023. He studied Anthropology as an undergrad, and obtained a Masters in Business Administration in 2008. He is a nonviolent direct action and peacekeeping trainer and lives in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region with his wife and two daughters. Will believes in the power of nonviolence to transform hearts, minds, and systems, when the dignity of those who would be othered is held with respect and compassion.