Sophia Rokhlin is a writer and community organizer dedicated to supporting the conservation of traditional ecological knowledge. She’s currently a coordinator of the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative.

She holds a BA in Anthropology from The New School and a M.Sc. in Ecological Economics from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She previously served as Development Coordinator at the Rainforest Foundation US, working to secure Amazonian Indigenous peoples’ lands and rights. Sophia has worked with the Environmental Justice Atlas, mapping grassroots activism related to commodity extraction in the Americas, and was a Program Coordinator at the Chaikuni Institute, exploring regenerative agriculture solutions in the Peruvian Amazon.

Sophia is a co-author of When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance (Watkins, 2019). Her research and writing has been featured in publications and podcasts including the Duncan Trussell Family Hour, The New York Times, Acne Paper Magazine, PBS, the BBC, and others.