Feb 23 2025 61 mins
Blair Hopkins
Executive Director
Hopkins has nearly two decades of logistics and program development/management experience across the public, private, non-profit and freelance sectors. Hopkins has managed large-scale, short-and-medium term project implementations on tight deadlines as a supervisor with the US Census bureau and as a post-disaster response subcontractor for FEMA. Her infrastructure expertise comes from her work in aerospace as a Best Practices Development Manager, and from maintenance of the SWOP Behind Bars Inc staff. Hopkins has extensive experience with large-scale project management, crisis response, specializing in establishing goals and deadlines. Blair owns 2 dogs, 10 cats, 30 Chickens, 2 Rabbits, 2 possums, fish and a snake in the pond.
Alex Andrews
Program Director
Alex Andrews is a sex worker with lived experience under criminalization of consensual sex work. She is the Co-Founder of SWOP Behind Bars. Alex has been working with men, women and trans individuals who have been incarcerated and also have experience in the sex industry and works to reduce the shame, discrimination and stigma of sex work by showing up at community meetings and town hall discussions on trafficking and using herself as an example to demonstrate that sex workers are just like everyone else. She has been called a “watchdog” of anti trafficking activity and is committed to the unification of sex worker rights in the United States. Alex recently lost her partner of more than 25 years in October, 2022. Her loss has brought new compassion to the work, although it is harder without the support of her beloved Michael. She has 2 Golden Retrievers named Bella and Lexi.
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