Following her BFA, she was a contract archivist with Treaty 8 Tribal Association in Fort St. John, and an assistant cultural programmer at the Native Friendship Centre, it was there where she learned about and later participated in an 8-month internship for Indigenous youth with Wainimate in Suva, Fiji, working with local medicine practitioners in recovering Indigenous knowledge of traditional medicine sponsored by the South Pacific Peoples Foundation.

[4] She funded her BFA and MA studies by working as a horse trainer on her family's ranch in Baldonnel and as a lab technician at a pulp and paper mill in Taylor, BC.

She was a co-curator for documenta 14, including for projects by Beau Dick, Rebecca Belmore, Agnes Denes, Guillermo Galindo, Iver Jåks, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Máret Ánne Sara, Mataaho Collective, Joar Nango, Elle-Hánsa (Hans Ragnar Mathisen), Synnøve Person, Ralph Hotere, and Nomin Bold, among others.

In this text, Hopkins introduces the interconnectedness between Indigenous lands, prospectors interests, and monetary desires catalyzed by the Klondike Gold Rush.

[8] Other writings and articles include "Fair Trade Heads: A Conversation on Repatriation and Indigenous Peoples with Maria Thereza Alves and Jolene Rickard" for South As a State of Mind; "Inventory" for C Magazine on sound, harmonics and Indigenous pedagogies;[9] "Native North America," a conversation with Richard William Hill for Mousse Magazine,[10] and, also in Mousse, an interview with artist and architect Joar Nango, "Temporary Structures and Architecture on the Move.