Hi! My name is Sophia.
I provide accountability, encouragement, and support to professionals and academics who are ready to share their perspective and expertise with their communities.
You may not have followed the conventional path — or maybe the conventional path wasn’t an option. Maybe you did, but it’s been a long road to get to where you are. It’s taken time and hard work to build your community and your career. It’s taken bravery to make your outsides match your insides.
I am your cheerleader, your guide, and your accountability partner. I’m a rogue academic, an enthusiast of ideas, and my great love is getting to know people and helping them share their stories.
Why trust me?
I have been coaching and advising nonfiction writing for nearly five years. As a Ph.D. candidate, I have spent much of my time in graduate school supporting students in all stages of the writing process – from talking through the first glimmers of an idea, to writing it down, to submitting their own Ph.D. applications.
On the other end of the spectrum, I also spent many years coaching varsity competitive swimming. There’s nothing like a technical, physically taxing sport chock-full of passionate introverts to get emotions running high. Very much like writing! The balance between technique, motivation, safety, and emotional support is the key to being a good swim coach. The transition into teaching and advising writing wasn’t as hard as one might expect!
Now, as a professional student of the humanities, my joy is digging into what makes us people. My superpower is finding the threads that run through and connect ideas and events and images and experiences.
Anyone can learn technique, but a coach supports you. Let’s get that book written <3