Meet Our Team

The Rev. Lynn Hopkins is a lifelong activist for justice and equity, as well as a lifelong student of religion and theology. Raised in the suburbs of Washington, DC, Lynn and spouse Carolyn Bond lived for 20 years in the Atlanta area, where Lynn graduated from Candler School of Theology at Emory University with an MDiv degree. They lived briefly in Denver, Colorado during a ministerial internship at First Unitarian Society of Denver, where Lynn was ordained in 2013. They settled in Montgomery, Alabama, where Lynn served the UU Fellowship of Montgomery until 2025. In all of those places, Lynn was engaged in public advocacy and organizing in areas of sexuality and gender equity, racial equity, economic justice, criminal justice, disability access, and more.  Lynn currently serves on the advisory committee of Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty, the nation’s only death penalty organization created and led by incarcerated persons, and is a member of TrUUsT (Transgender. Religious professional UUs Together). Lynn and Carolyn are in their 37th year of marriage, and are loving parents of two rescue guinea pigs, Ella Baker and Barbara Jordan. Lynn identifies as queer and nonbinary, and prefers no pronoun.