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Sophia Rey

Sophia Rey is entering her final year at Harvard College, studying History, Government, and Portuguese. Having grown up in Bellingham, Washington, her love and respect for the lands and waters of the Northwest Coast were nurtured by outdoor experiences and the teachings of the Lhaq’temish (the Lummi People). Sophia’s interests are in how political formations partner across boundaries, ideologies, and identities to protect the environment. 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. 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 ecological crisis.

An illustration of Musa × paradisiaca

A History Wrapped in Banana Leaves

How hallacas and the banana plant became intertwined in Venezuelan cultural memory.