Born in 1991, Sophia Rakel Armen is an Armenian-American organizer, writer and scholar from Los Angeles, CA. 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 of color theory. 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 movement in the United States for over 15 years. She is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Armenian America, a new publication dedicated to exploring Armenian-American issues and identity through social justice perspectives. She is the descendant of eight genocide survivors from Kharpert, Istanbul, Hadjin and Van. Professionally, Armen was an organizer for worker’s rights with UAW, an organizer with CODEPINK, a former founding staff collective member of The Hye Phen Magazaine, and selected to be a staff member of the campaign for Bernie Sanders in 2020. She was the first Middle Eastern woman elected as student body president in the history of the University of California system where she helped build the early Divestment movement for Palestine resulting in nationwide backlash against her presidency, organize statewide and nationwide leftist convenings, and resources for marginalized students. She currently is a PhD candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego, writing on a “people’s history” of SWANA Americans and race in the U.S. In 2021, she helped win inclusion into the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum in California for West Asian Americans which will now teach all students in K-12 Armenian American & critical ethnic studies. She is organizing with comrades across the world for gender and racial justice, reparations, and the end of genocide, settler colonialism and war. And hopes you will organize with her too.