Nopar has worked as a rural community organizer in Minnesota for forty years. For much of that time, he worked for the Land Stewardship Project (LSP). Nopar has also previously worked for Centro Campesino, and at LSP, worked to expose cases of wage theft against rural Latino workers on factory farms, and build white, rural support for immigrant rights. In the year 2000, Nopar founded the multi-racial theatre troupe, Action Theatre, to explore issues of race, class and gender in Winona, MN. He believes that artistic and cultural expression are key to social change, and wrote “Look Who’s Knockin,” LSP’s one-act touring play about new farmer access to land. For ten years, Nopar co-chaired the social action committee at B’nai Israel Synagogue in Rochester. Since 1990, he has raised sheep and cattle, and worked to build soil health, on a small farm south of Winona.