Sofia (She/Her) – I’m the Deputy Editor & Media Partnership Manager at Thred, specialising in exclusive articles and live interviews, fashion and beauty with a focus on sustainability, women’s rights, psychedelics, and Latin America. I studied Spanish at the University of Exeter and International Journalism at City, London. Follow me on Twitter, LinkedIn, and drop me some ideas/feedback via email.
Hi, I’m Sofia, and I’m the Deputy Editor & Media Partnership Manager at Thred. I also work closely with Gen Zers from around the world on exclusive articles and live interviews to promote the inspiring work they’re doing to make the world a better place.
During my time at the University of Exeter where I studied Spanish, I chose to spend my year abroad teaching English in Argentina and working as a journalist in Colombia before travelling across the continent with my camera.
Returning to the UK to pursue a Masters in International Journalism and an internship at National Geographic Traveller, I eventually found myself at Thred’s doors.
Now, I balance my time between obsessing over mushrooms, practising yoga in the middle of the office, and telling everyone about the new song I just learned to play on the bass guitar.
Latest Stories from Sofia
Opinion – social media can never do enough to protect users’ body image
YouTube is the latest platform to make bold claims about restricting young people’s access to content that promotes harmful beauty standards. In light of other online spaces’ failure to address the increasingly concerning impacts of diet culture, however, will this actually have any effect? On September 5th, YouTube announced it would stop recommending videos idealising specific fitness levels, body weights, or physical features to young people, following warnings of...
Why has the proposed smoking area ban sparked outrage in the UK?
To reduce the number of preventable deaths linked to tobacco use, Labour wants to take the indoor smoking ban outdoors. Opponents of the plan – including those who don’t light up – are lamenting the loss of valuable spaces where ‘all the best socialising happens.’ It’s no secret that life online lacks substance. These days, with the false promise of lasting connectedness through social media growing tired, many of...
Decluttering trends are making a mess of our mental health
With ‘cleantok’ videos racking up billions of views, experts are concerned that people are losing their ability to distinguish between fads and methods that will actually help them. Last year, world-renowned decluttering expert Marie Kondo admitted that she’d ‘given up on tidying.’ The ‘queen of clean’ (as she’s so aptly referred to) willingly succumbed to the reality of having three kids to look after, turned her back on domestic order, and...
Are social media algorithms breeding misogyny and violence?
Amid mounting evidence to suggest that men and boys are being pushed violent and misogynistic content online – without deliberately searching for or engaging with it – many fear that this unregulated far-right radicalisation is increasingly turning them against women and girls. On Monday, BBC Panorama released a new documentary. Titled ‘Can We Live Without Our Phones?’, it investigates what happens when children lose access to their mobile...
Opinion – ‘man or bear’ debate reflects misogynistic violence
‘Would you rather be stuck in the forest with a man or a bear?’ is the intriguing theoretical discussion that played out on social media in May. Met with nearly complete unanimity among women, many men tellingly reacted with the kind of gaslighting and deflection that’s painfully familiar to survivors of sexual assault. If you were alone in the forest, would you rather encounter a bear or a man? This...
Is food becoming less nutritious?
Measurements of fruits and vegetables show that their minerals, vitamins, and protein content has dropped significantly since the 1950s. As the level of CO2 in the atmosphere continues to rise, researchers believe that human activity is to blame for this rapid decline in plant quality. The nutritional value of some fruits and vegetables has dropped significantly since the 1950s. According to a 2004 US study, important nutrients in a selection of...
Taylor Swift’s food bank donations make huge impact
During her 18-months-long Eras tour, the singer has helped fund hundreds of thousands of meals to feed the growing number of Europeans and Americans struggling with rising costs of living. It’s not often that Taylor Swift makes headlines for something positive. During the last few years alone, the mega-star has been tangled up in lawsuits over the Ticketmaster mess, faced white feminism accusations, and received...
Are people actually falling in love with Artificial Intelligence?
No longer just the stuff of Spike Jonze’s storytelling, users of GTP-40 – OpenAI’s latest generation chatbot that speaks aloud in its own voice – have been forming emotional relationships with it. Written and directed by Spike Jonze, Her is an ahead-of-its-time contemporary romance film that explores the state of modern human relationships. Released ten years ago, it follows the story of a man who falls in...
The UK government will now treat misogyny as extremism
Vowing to crack down on people ‘pushing harmful and hateful beliefs,’ home secretary Yvette Cooper has ordered a review of the country’s counter-extremism strategy. Part of a concerted effort to tackle ever-increasing violence against women and girls nationwide, Labour’s new approach is seeking to combat the radicalisation of young men online. When Sarah Everard went missing in 2021, her story hit a deep nerve across the UK. In...
will I ever heal my relationship with my body?
though I’d vehemently deny it if you ever brought it up, I cannot remember ever caring about my physical appearance in a way that could be considered ‘healthy.’ I’ve always wondered what it would be like to look in the mirror and feel optimistic about what’s in front of me. Saying that, I strive to avoid my reflection at all costs these days, to ward off the chastising that otherwise runs...
