Sophia is originally from San Clemente, California. She completed her undergraduate degree at Sarah Lawrence College, where she majored in art history and photography. During her junior year, she studied abroad at the University of Oxford (Wadham College) as a visiting student. After living in Rome and working at the Vatican Museums for four years, she recently returned to the United States. As an M.A.R. student in Religion and the Arts, she is dedicated to promoting and safeguarding religious art and iconography, exploring what it means to have faith “on view” in church and museum settings.