Howie Hawkins

Hawkins interests me because his politics grew out of real working life, not abstraction. A Dartmouth graduate who spent years as a transportation worker, he approaches environmental issues from the vantage point of labor, which lends his convictions weight. Co-founding the Green Party and standing as its 2020 presidential nominee meant carrying a third party with little chance of victory, and that takes uncommon resolve. Win or lose, I respect people who keep advocating for marginalized positions out of principle rather than ambition. Still active in his seventies, Hawkins strikes me as a genuine believer in the causes he champions.

Name (English)

Howie Hawkins

Name (Japanese)

ハウィー・ホーキンズ

Reading

はうぃー・ほーきんず

Born

December 8, 1952 (age 73)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dragon

Origin

San Francisco, California, United States

Occupation

politician / activist / transportation worker

High school

Burlingame High School

University

Dartmouth College

• Official sitehttps://www.howiehawkins.org/
• Xhttps://x.com/HowieHawkins
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie%20Hawkins
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15492464

Tags

• California
• politician
• activist
• transportation worker

Last updated

2026-06-23

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.