Sophie Huttner

Biography

Sophie Huttner, of Sarasota, Florida, is majoring in global affairs at Yale, where much of her academic work and service activity has focused on issues of gender, violence, and forced migration, with a concentration on Latin America. She has worked as a volunteer interpreter for asylum seekers, and has been active in community service in New Haven, working as an English teacher for English as a Second Language students. She is the president of the Yale Interpretation Network, one of Yale's largest student service groups, in which she helps to provide pro bono interpretation and translation services to nonprofits across New Haven. In her free time, Huttner enjoys learning languages and participating in Jewish life on campus. She plans to complete the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at Oxford.