ROB HOPKIRK
(HE/HIM/HIS)

DCALF FELLOW

Rob Hopkirk joined DC Affordable Law Firm in August 2024. Rob came to DCALF with complementary passions for substantive justice and procedural fairness. He aims to help empower underserved communities to leverage their legal claims, as well as to advocate for court systems that are more accessible to these communities and more responsive to their voices.

Rob graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 2018, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Religion and English Literature. As a student, he worked as a tour guide at the Harvard Art Museums and volunteered as an afterschool theater teacher in Boston public schools. In 2020, Rob graduated from Yale Divinity School with a Master of Arts degree in Religion & Literature. His time learning alongside the social justice activists in the Divinity School’s ministerial program pushed him towards a career in public service through the law.

As a J.D. student at Georgetown University Law Center, Rob represented families with pressing housing and civil rights claims as a member of the Health Justice Alliance Clinic. He was an Annual Review Editor for the Georgetown Journal of Gender & the Law and a board member for Georgetown’s chapter of the American Constitution Society. As he works to develop his academic interests into professional knowledge, he is particularly intent on better understanding how the law’s construction of family life and gender roles affects the concrete needs and lived experiences of DCALF’s clients.

Rob graduated with his J.D. in May 2024, and is currently continuing his education by pursuing an L.L.M. in advocacy, also at Georgetown Law.