
Researcher, Writer, Creative
about
Sofia is a researcher, writer, and artist working at the intersection of environmental justice, community resistance, and international development politics. Her work focuses on socio-environmental conflicts; who bears the cost of extraction, how communities organise against it, and what a genuine fossil fuels phase-out would require. She contributes to the EJ Atlas, mapping resistance movements against fossil fuel extraction and fake green solutions. She works as a Climate Change trainer, projct manager and freelance graphic designer and she writes a weekly Substack on fossil fuels phase-out.
experience
EJ Atlas · ICTA-UAB
Researcher | May 2026 - Present
Contributing to the world's largest database of socio-environmental conflicts. Focus on oil and gas extraction, fake green solutions, and resistance movements.
COOPI - Cooperazione Internazionale
Programme Assistant | Present
Supporting humanitarian and development programmes in Colombia on climate resilience, community protection, and Amazon conservation.
Youth and Environment Europe (YEE)
Climate Change Trainer | June 2026 - Present
Training young people all around europe on topics such climate change, collective resistance and sustainability
GIScience for Humanity, Urban space and Biosphere
Research assistant | March - August 2023
Conducted peer-reviewed research on Social Licence to Operate and socio-environmental conflict in Italy's main onshore oil extraction zone.
Municiplity of Cremona
European Project Manager & Youth Worker| Dec 2023 - Dec 2025
Managed a portfolio of EU-funded projects, coordinating partnerships with NGOs, civil society organisations across Europe. Delivered non-formal education and training for young people on democratic participation, EU citizenship, and sustainability.
projects
Publications
2025 - Il concetto di Social Licence to Operate come strumento di analisi dei conflitti socioambientali: applicazione al territorio petrolifero della Val d'Agri. Rivista Geografica Italiana, CXXXII
2024 - The extractive operations of ENI in Val d'Agri: Assessing socio-environmental conflicts through the lenses of Social License to Operate. In Memorie Geografiche, Vol. XXIV: Geografia ed ecologia politica
2023 - Sostenibilità ambientale e sociale: il modello della licenza sociale di operare. In M. Bellini (Ed.), Cambiamenti Climatici: effetti evidenti, azioni insufficienti. Una sfida possibile? Atti di Convegno
education
Degree: Master in Cooperation and Development
Università degli Studi di Pavia
Double Master's in Climate Change and Sustainable Territorial Development
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador



