Jay Hooper

JAY HOOPER was born in Berlin, Vermont in 1993. Having graduated from Connecticut College as a double-major in history and government, Jay returned to his hometown of Brookfield, promptly launching a successful campaign to represent the ORA-WAS-ADD District in the State Legislature. Eager to give back to his community on as many fronts as possible, Jay works on local issues of sustainable economic development, energy efficiency, and community organization. Spending much of his schooling career outside Vermont, Hoop’s appreciation for his good fortune of living in this beautiful rural state, which is governed by a unique democracy, has grown tremendously. He broadened his worldview when he spent two and one-half months doing community service work in Africa between his junior and senior years in high school at an all-boys boarding school called Trinity-Pawling. Hooper spent two summers canvassing for Vermont Public Interest Research Group, mobilizing grassroots activism in opposition to Monsanto and to take action against climate change, big money in politics, and toxins in children’s toys. He grew up in a family of cheese-makers, who established B-Corp certified Vermont Creamery…