The following write up is found on one of Vassar College's webpages featuring prominent alumni. Here is the link to that page: http://english.vassar.edu/major/where/Jeannette-Hopkins-44.html
An Editor with a Cause
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Returning to academia, Jeannette became director and editor-in-chief for the Wesleyan University Press and an Adjunct Professor of English at Wesleyan University. She also allowed her interest in public affairs, specifically civil liberties and race relations, to become a priority in her life. In addition to co-authoring A Relevant War Against Poverty with Kenneth B. Clark, she has been an active member of the Unitarian church and was involved with the American Civil Liberties Union for many years as an elected member of the National Board; she still remains a member of the ACLU's National Advisory Council.
Even in her "full-time" retirement, Jeannette continues to mentor young authors and young assistant professors on the tenure track. Her devotion to the craft of writing and the aspiring authors that she has helped shape is perhaps most evident in the subject of her unpublished manuscript: her experience working with writers from Lewis Mumford, C.S. Lewis, James MacGregor and others. On her experience with editing the work of young authors, she writes: "If I can, I expect to continue this work as long as possible."
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