She has been on the staff of Keltria: Journal of Druidism and Celtic Magick and has been a contributing author to many New Age and Pagan journals. She is also Archdruid and founder, Tribe of the Oak (Tuatha na Dara), She held the position of vice president of the Henge of Keltria, an international Druid Fellowship, for nine years. She is a co-founder and former co-Chief of The Order of Whiteoak (Ord na Darach Gile), a Reconstructionist Druid organization. Hopman joined the modern Druidic organization Ar nDraiocht Fein in 1984. She trained in Herbalism primarily with William LeSassier in New York in 1983, at the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland under Barbara D'Arcy Thompson, and received professional training at the National Center for Homeopathy. in Art Education, and received a master's degree in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 1990. Hopman graduated summa cum laude from Temple University, Philadelphia, PA with a B.S. She has taught Druidry and herbalism in the United States, Scotland, Ireland and Canada, and has been a speaker and workshop leader at numerous Neopagan and New Age events, and a subject of articles in The New York Times. and a member of the Grey Council of Mages and Sages.
She is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild.
She was formerly a Professor of Wortcunning at the Grey School of Wizardry, where she taught herbalism, Celtic Neopaganism, Celtic history and Celtic lore. She is a certified writing teacher with Amherst Writers and Artists and a multiple recipient of the Golden Oak Award. She is the author of several books and audio tapes on Paganism and Druidry, and three novels. Ellen Evert Hopman (born July 31, 1952, in Salzburg, Austria) is an author of both fiction and non-fiction, an herbalist, a lay homeopath, a lecturer, and a Mental Health Counselor who lives and works in Western Massachusetts.
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