Freedom through unity in the community.

Hopkinton Freedom Team is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in January of 2022. Your help and support will help us tremendously as our initial seed funding. A small amount goes a long way

Unfortunately, our 3/21 book discussion at the library has been cancelled.  We hope to offer a discussion of Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice by Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow in the future.  We apologize for any inconvenience. 

THE hft IS VERY PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE OUR MARATHON RUNNER FOR BOSTON 2024 TO RAISE MONEY FOR OUR 501(c)(3)

CHRISTIN TATE

Christin is a Massachusetts native who graduated from Springfield College with her doctorate in Physical Therapy in 2013. She moved to California where she became board certified in Orthopedics and Women’s Health. While living in California, she ran several marathons while treating patient’s musculoskeletal needs on-site at Google. She now resides in Hopkinton with her husband and two kids and is looking forward to fundraising/running for the Hopkinton Freedom Team. Christin has always been a champion for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at work, at home, and in her community. She is honored to be able to support such a worthy and needed mission.


If you would like to donate to Christin's fundraising for the HFT, please click HERE.


To hear the latest from jamele adams, creator of the Freedom Team concept, listen to this 15-minute Tedx Natick Talk, November 2023, by clicking on the title:  You Are Amazing, Believe In Yourself 

PeACE DAY 9/21/2022

The HFT and the HHS Diversity Club paired together at Polyarts and Family Day for peace in our world.  Visitors stopped by to decorate cut out hands that are now on display at the HHS above Hopkinton artist Michael Alfano's sculpture.

AT THE HIGH SCHOOL

Inspired by Sadako and the One Thousand Paper Cranes as told by Eleanor Coerr, the HHS Diversity Club and HFT members, along with other community members, made origami cranes for health and world peace at Polyarts and Family Day, September 2022.

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Hopkinton Freedom Team

P.O. Box 60, Hopkinton MA 01748

Our Mission

The mission of the Hopkinton Freedom Team is to create unity in the community by fostering inclusion, solidarity and compassion for all people.  The Freedom Team is focused on moving beyond tolerance to embracing, sharing and celebrating our community’s diversity.  Its members meet monthly to explore ways of offering dialogue, support and programming to community members with a goal of promoting love, inclusion and trust (“LIT”).

The Freedom Team also offers a safe, confidential and respectful space to discuss incidents involving harassment or discrimination related to race, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability or class using a transformative justice model. This model offers opportunities for conversation and reconciliation to help repair experiences of  misunderstanding or harm.  Individuals may access this opportunity to talk by calling the hotline number at 774-278-4455 if they have experienced or witnessed bias-motivated threats, harassment or violence. 

The first Freedom Team formed in 2016 in Natick through the inspiration of Jamele Adams; the Hopkinton Freedom Team formed in 2020.  

Hopkinton Freedom Team Membership

Your membership starts with a pledge to promote love, inclusion and trust within our community.  

Every year our town of Hopkinton becomes world-renowned as a place of  world-wide unity and common ground for thousands of people who come here from all over the world to run in The Boston Marathon.  In a way, this is the same intention of The Freedom Team.  Our wish is to promote this same sense of being a welcoming town to all its residents as well as visitors by growing more inclusive-minded and welcoming as a community for all people.  Our ultimate dream goal is to have every resident of our town sign up for general membership to the Freedom Team and its mission to promote love, inclusion and trust within our community.  

You are invited to sign up for general membership to The Freedom Team by submitting a pledge form below and sharing what you have done to bring more unity, peace and acceptance to Hopkinton and beyond.   

call town of hopkinton HOTLINE at 774-278-4455 to report bias-motivated threats, harassment and violence.