Sophie Smalls

• Master of Public Health, Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
• Bachelor of Arts, Women's Studies and Human Rights, Barnard College

Sophie is currently working on the Local Infrastructure Project, an initiative which aims to empower small- and mid-sized U.S. cities to access federal infrastructure grants. She is excited to help provide these cities with the control and resources necessary to create authentic change at the local level.

Prior to joining DA, Sophie was a Senior Project Manager for an initiative at the Population Council, a global research organization, where she focused on strengthening the capacity of a range of organizations to deliver more effective and scalable programs and services for disenfranchised adolescent girls and young women. In this position, she built and oversaw partnerships across Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. Her areas of focus were reproductive and sexual health, education access and attainment, economic empowerment and mobility, gender-based violence, and psychosocial health.