Bert Hopkins

Director of Equity & Leadership Development

Bert Hopkins is the Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Manager for Triangle Associates. While he has a breadth of experience as a facilitator, his focus has been working for racial justice as a consultant, trainer, and educator. The core of his work has been opening space for the groups he works with to engage authentically and deeply in order to move from individual awareness to collective action. He supports folks in navigating the tensions between the social and technical, the process and outcomes, the head and the heart, in order to develop shared strategies and solutions. 

Bert has an MA in Whole Systems Design from Antioch University Seattle and a BA in Psychology from Baylor University. Prior to joining Triangle, he was in a similar role at Planned Parenthood, spent several years consulting and offering public workshops, taught middle school at Seattle Girls’ School, and started his professional journeys in variety of IT roles in education. 

In his free time Bert loves to be outdoors, especially on or in the water, but always makes time to go into the dojo and keep up a 23-year karate practice. He is an avid permaculturist and natural builder, and he finds healing in growing food, cooking and eating it, and creating the spaces that hold all of these. He builds community this way, as well, including organizing white men to show up and decolonize in the kitchen as they cook for movement events.