Sarah Hopkins
Prior to joining Open Vallejo, Hopkins was a reporting fellow at Inside Climate News, where she wrote feature stories on environmental justice, and an editorial intern at FRONTLINE, where she assisted with the production of long-form investigative documentaries. She previously worked as an investigator, writer and editor for public interest legal organizations, including the ACLU. Inspired by the intersections of science, law and public policy, she completed a master’s in science journalism at MIT. She is the recipient of the Taylor/Blakeslee University Fellowship from the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and MIT’s S. Klein Prize for Scientific Writing for the Public. She was raised in a bilingual family in California, is fluent in Spanish and is a proud graduate of California public schools.
