Biography

Sophia Vertido (she/her) is a second-generation Filipinx-American woman who was born and raised in Aurora, Colorado. She is currently a first-year Masters student, pursuing a degree in Asian American Studies. Prior to UCLA, Sophia received her Bachelors at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Political Science and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her undergraduate research explored domestic culture in the Philippines during the American colonial period, using frameworks of imperialism and gender to argue how American colonialism promoted hegemonic constructions of Filipina womanhood but also simultaneously created spaces for resistance and counter-hegemony. She plans to continue researching the role that Filipina women played in resisting US empire-building.