Previously, Sophie served as the Law and Policy Director at the NYU Furman Center’s Housing Solutions Lab. At the Lab, she advised state and local officials on housing issues and wrote and published extensively on housing and urban policy. She is a graduate of Yale Law School. As a law student, she worked with local government attorneys through the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project and represented clients with low income in housing proceedings at the Urban Justice Center and New Haven Legal Assistance. After law school, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable Andrew D. Hurwitz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Sophie holds a B.A. in economics from New York University and an MPhil in social policy from the University of Oxford, where she earned a distinction for her graduate research on homelessness and access to public restrooms. She lives in New York City with her wife.