Sophia is the founder of 285 South, Metro Atlanta’s only English language news publication dedicated to the region’s immigrant and refugee communities. Before launching 285 South in 2021, she worked for over 15 years in media and communications, including at Al Jazeera Media Network, CNN, the United Nations Development Programme, and South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT).
Her writing has been published in Atlanta Magazine, Canopy Atlanta, the Atlanta Civic Circle, the Atlanta History Center, and The Local Palate. She won the Atlanta Press Club award for Narrative Nonfiction in 2023 and 2024; and was a recipient of the Raksha Community Change award in 2023 and was a fellow of Ohio University’s Kiplinger Public Affairs Journalism Program in 2024.
Contact her at sophia@285south.com and learn more about herhere.
The Trump administration is "making wild claims and not providing any evidence," says Austin Kocher, a Syracuse University researcher who's spent the past decade studying immigration.
Alma Bowman moved to the U.S. from the Philippines when she was 10. She should have obtained U.S. citizenship from her father, says her lawyer. On March 26, she was taken to the Stewart Detention Center.
Free mental health provider for refugees and asylum seekers stops taking new clients in Atlanta, after its overseas work was decimated by a termination of USAID contracts