Co-founder & graduate student
sophiaeperez@berkeley.edu

Sophia Perez is a Chamorro filmmaker, a doctoral student in UC Berkeley’s Geography department, and a co-founder of the Critical Pacific Islands Studies Collective. Her research focuses on ongoing imperialism and militarization in the Pacific, particularly the US military presence in the Marianas. She’s also interested in indigenous, community-based filmmaking and is currently working on a documentary short funded by Pacific Islanders in Communications.