Sofia Poznansky is a journalist, writer, and history graduate. She recently completed her Fulbright grant year in Akhaltsikhe, Georgia where she reported on ethnic minorities and their relationship to Russia and the West. She lived in the mountainous Samtskhe–Javakheti region and assisted the English faculty at the local university.
She previously 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.
