Sophia Thraya is an educator, affiliate researcher of the Critical Gender, Intersectionality & Migration Sociology Research Group, educational researcher, and current graduate student at the Werklund School of Education within the Learning Sciences. Sophia’s passions for teaching and learning have been lifelong, in 2021 she received her Bachelor of Education and is a certified teacher in Alberta, specializing in Elementary English as an Additional Language education. Sophia’s research interests are situated in identity and language, marginalized learners' educational experiences, leveraging lived and intergenerational knowledges in disciplinary spaces, social justice, and equity in education with a specific focus on experiences of refugee children within educational spaces. Sophia’s associations and position with and within community(s) has shaped the ways in which she has approached her research, community engagement, and educational practice.