Sophia Smith Galer

Sophia Smith Galer is an award-winning journalist, author and content creator credited for pioneering journalism on TikTok and speaking internationally about her investigations across health, tech and gender violence.

Sophia’s push for representation in newsrooms for younger audiences and the stories and platforms that matter to them has won her a series of accolades, including the British Journalism Awards’ Innovation of the Year in 2021, a spot on the Forbes Under 30 List and recognition in British Vogue as one of the 25 most influential women in the UK in 2022.

Sophia began her career at the BBC, reporting across the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World News and building Webby-winning BBC social media channels before joining VICE News as a senior reporter. Her multilingual reporting across Spanish, Arabic and Italian has helped her get to the story first in English-language media several times, including her reporting on a catcalling episode in Madrid that won VICE over 25 million TikTok and Instagram views.

Her first book, Losing It: Sex Education for the 21st Century, was published by Harper Collins to critical acclaim. She became a Visiting Fellow in 2023 for Brown University’s Information Futures Lab where she has developed resources for combating misinformation and misogyny in British schools that she delivers personally.