Sophia Armen

Sophia Armen is a South West Asian and North African (SWANA) feminist organizer, writer and scholar from Los Angeles, CA, born in 1991. She is organizing for abolition feminism, racial justice, reparations for her community and communities in the U.S., and stopping the U.S. war machine centering women and queer people. She is the Co-Chair and founder of The Feminist Front and Armenian-American Action Network and has been building in the survivor justice movement, Palestine solidarity movement, and SWANA movements in the United States for over 12 years. She is the descendant of genocide survivors from Istanbul, Hadjin, Kharpert, and Van. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Hye-Phen Magazine, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Armenian Weekly, and The Electronic Intifada. She tweets @sophiaarmen.