Sophia Sokolowski is a candidate in the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) program at Georgetown University. She most recently served as the Assistant to Managing Director Steve Ricchetti of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. She first joined Vice President Biden’s team as an intern for the White House Cancer Moonshot in 2016.

Sophia formerly was a policy analyst for the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware. Prior to this role, she worked as the Cancer Research Training Awardee on the President's Cancer Panel at the National Cancer Institute and as a Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute Fellow for the National Democratic Institute.

A former TEDx speaker and published science author, Sophia now hosts the podcast Twentyfour the People. She received her B.A. in Biological Sciences and Psychology from Wellesley College and is fluent in German.

"I chose the MSFS program at Georgetown University, because this program helps further my aspiration of becoming a foreign diplomat by providing me with a strong foundation to honorably navigate the challenges of a career in international affairs."

Publication

Sokolowski et al., (2012). The large conductance calcium-activated K+ channel interacts with the small GTPase Rab11b. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 426:221-225. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.08.067].