Sophia Simon-Ortiz

Sophia Simon Ortiz is a faculty member in the Health Education Department at San Francisco State University. She currently Health and Social Justice courses there as part of the Metro College Success Program, a colleges success program at SF State targeted towards first generation, low income, students of color. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Sophia’s work has been at the intersection of community storytelling, power-building, and public health. She organizes in the Bay with the Public Health Justice Collective — a group of public health workers working to push the field to take on critical Issues like policing and imprisonment and their impacts on community health. She is also one of 14 authors from around the country on the list passed American Public Health Association policy statement naming law enforcement violence as a public health crisis in the US.

Site Web: Ending police violence
Metro College Success