Emerson Fellow
Sophia Kortchmar
19th Class, 2012-2013
Sophia graduated from the University of Chicago in 2012 with a degree in American history and a minor in English. She coordinated Summer Links, a social justice internship program, and worked with various student-community coalition groups. Sophia interned at the Transformative Justice Law Project, a prison abolitionist project that provides legal services to transgender, gender-queer people and Latinos Progresando, which provides family-based immigration services. She also has teaching experience with Chicago Public School students, adult English-learners, and formerly incarcerated adults, and has been involved in various grassroots direct action struggles.
Field placement: Bread for the City
Washington, D.C.
Policy placement: Families USA
Washington, D.C.
Hunger Free Community Report
Social Service and Social Change: Bread for the City in Context serves as a resource for leaders within Bread for the City by collecting information about different advocacy and client engagement initiatives within the organization, and framing them within the context of literature on organizational transformation and strategies from peer organizations.