Sophia means wisdom, and on my best days I live up to my namesake. I have biked across Spain, and fenced in the Junior Olympics. I have received my blackbelt in Taekwondo and graduated from the prestigious ArtCenter College of design. But before all of that, I am first a dual citizen who grew up in Venice beach alongside my younger brother with parents who instilled in me the strength to chase my dreams. My dad is a German pathologist and he taught me the meaning of hard work and being true to yourself. My mom is a costumer and the daughter of a holocaust survivor who taught me the value of empathy for human stories.

I come from a lineage of survivors and this background has instilled a very intimate truth that true loss is when you lose the potential to make your own story. My core drive is therefore using my duality in logic and creativity to provide the tools for people to maximize their experiences and help them author their memories. As a designer, I jump into messy concepting and development from wild to mild in order to find a solution that best tells a story worth telling. I am not a product designer who needs to make more things, I’m a storyteller who creates products to improve the human condition.