Sophia Garofalo

MA Security Studies, Terrorism & Substate Violence Candidate at Georgetown University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

About

Experience

  • Georgetown Center for Security Studies (11 mos)
    • Graduate Research Assistant
      Apr 2026 - Present · 4 mos

      Working under Dr. Daniel Byman as a Graduate Research Assistant.

    • Media and Events Fellow
      Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

  • Project Intern at Momentus Global
    May 2025 - Sep 2025 · 5 mos

  • Arts Undergraduate Society of McGill University (2 yrs 1 mo)
    • President
      May 2024 - May 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

      The AUS President is the Chief Exeuctive of the Faculty of Arts student union, a non-profit with an annual budget of $1 million CAD. The President acts as a spokesperson for over 8,000 students in the Arts Undergraduate Society Program, liasing with McGill administration. I manage over 150 employees, as well as a team of Executives who work on finance, events, external and internal support, and advocacy.

    • Student Senator
      May 2023 - May 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Representing student voices, specifically those of arts undergraduate students, at the highest elected level of student government. Challenging the university on present issues, and working on personal projects including gender based sexual violence prevention.

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant at McGill University
    May 2024 - Aug 2024 · 4 mos

    Created manuscript research for publishing on the Canadian eduction system and its effects on Black immigrant youth under the guidance of Dr. Shelly Clark and Dr. Milka Nyariro. Investigated pre and post colonial education systems and their effects on gender dynamics, compiling data and synthesizing findings.

  • Communications and Policy Intern at imagine1day
    May 2023 - Aug 2023 · 4 mos

    Working with the non-profit Imagine1day out of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as a Communications and Media Intern. - Transcribing and editing stories of internally displaced peoples for donor relations and community understanding - Furthering the foundations of English proficiency - creator of the organizations' accountability to affected peoples (AAP) policy, and editor and contributor to the partnership policy - Social Media Manager, connecting and posting on platforms: Instagram, facebook, twitter