During her successful six years in broadcast, Hopkins wrote and produced several short historical documentaries, including “The Battle of Fort Henry”, Ohio Valley 2000 (a yearlong series) and news inserts for CBS News Magazine “48 hours” Class of 2000. She also produced in-depth reports on the Foreign steel import crisis, Ohio’s unconstitutional school funding and labor-management issues, such as the yearlong Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel strike, and Kroger Supermarket meat packers’ labor dispute. 

In addition to writing and producing special news projects that earned the television station more than $100K in sales revenue, Ms. Hopkins also served as principal news anchor and managing editor for the station’s #1 rated Weekend Newscast. 

 Today, Hopkins is telling stories without video and she is a frequent contributor of opinion editorials to local newspapers such as the Citizen Newspaper in Chicago. Her feature articles are published in corporate newsletters and government publications such as United States Department of Justice In-Sites Quarterly magazine. In 1999, Hopkins received a rare honor of having her poem “Judgment Day” published in Ogden newspapers’ Wheeling News Register editorial page. “Scoop”, one of Hopkins’ short stories, was published by Twotightshoes.com, an on-line literary magazine based in Chicago. 

 As an on-air personality, Ms. Hopkins served as a Public Affairs liaison for WTRF-TV and was spokesperson for several organizations including American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, YWCA & Girl Scouts of America’s institutional video “Open Air, Opens Minds” targeting middle-school girls and she was an honored guest lecturer for Young Authors’ Conference in Eastern Ohio. Hopkins is a recipient of the Wheeling Chapter - NAACP President’s Award for Media Excellence and Simpson United Methodist Church Community leader award. Hopkins’ novel “Sleeping With A D-Man” received special recognition at Aspicomm Media 1^st Self-Publishing Symposium & S’Indie Awards held in March 2006.

 Hopkins is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), Essentially Woman, an on-line writing group, and The League of Black Women. She is a former member of National Association of Black Journalists.

 Hopkins owns The Leadstory, a Media communications firm specializing in Public Affairs.  She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and currently resides in Naperville, IL.