Sofia Poznansky is a journalist, writer, and history graduate. She is currently a Fulbright recipient of the English Teaching Award. She lives in the mountainous Samtskhe–Javakheti region in southwestern Georgia and works at the State University in Akhaltsikhe. Sofia hopes to use her grant year to explore Georgia’s ethnic enclaves and their relationship to Russia and the West.
She recently worked as a Newsroom Assistant at The New York Times where she contributed to the newsroom at large, aiding the International, Metro, and Obituary desk. Before joining the Times, Sofia lived and worked in Israel in two distinct regions of the country. There she taught at local elementary schools, her students ranged from rambunctious 6th graders to displaced children from Eritrea and Ukraine.
Before that, she was a history student at the University of Houston’s Honors college, where she worked as a Research Assistant for the University’s Special Collections department. Contributing to an archival project about the African American for Black Liberation (AABL), a student civil rights organization, Sofia collected, analyzed, and wrote on large sums of historical data.
She attended the University of Houston where she pursued a BA in History and an Honors College Minor in Phronesis. She studied the intersection of Political Theory, Philosophy, and Post-Soviet History.