[1] She previously served as associate provost of Florida Memorial University and the founding director of the FMU Social Justice Institute think tank and research center.
She is the author of the 2015 history book Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida.
In 2015, Hobbs published Democracy Abroad, Lynching At Home: Racial Violence In Florida, which won a Bronze Florida Book Award[10][7] and includes oral histories of family members and descendants of lynching victims.
[2][14] When the US Congress considered making lynching a federal crime in 2020, Hobbs spoke with The New York Times about people who lack of awareness of the historical magnitude of violence motivated by racism in the United States, and stated, "I think if they understood that, perhaps they would understand the Black Lives Matter movement as an extension of centuries, really, of advocacy on the part of African-Americans.
"[15] In 2022, Hobbs served as the inaugural executive director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute for Law, Race, Social Justice, and Economic Policy at Edward Waters University.