Sophia Rey is entering her third year at Harvard College studying History, Government, and Portuguese. She became involved with POLIS in her capacity as a summer intern at the Centre for Global Studies (CFGS) at the University of Victoria. Having grown up in Bellingham, Washington, her love and respect for lands and waters of this region were nurtured by outdoor experiences and the teachings of the Lhaq’temish (the Lummi People).
Now, across the border, she’s humbled and grateful to contribute to the important work at POLIS and CFGS. Sophia’s interests are in how political, legal, and governing entities will partner across boundaries, ideologies, and identities to protect the environment while upholding Indigenous values, knowledge, and communities. Amidst accelerating human-caused climate disruption, she hopes to learn from and support marginalized communities’ efforts across the globe to assert their rights and conserve their homelands.
Sophia enjoys interrogating the underlying moral and spiritual relations beneath the ways our modern global economy treats the natural world. As a runner, poet, aspiring filmmaker, and future lawyer, she hopes to harness her skills to advocate and uplift communities and places facing the disproportionate impacts of climate disruption.
