Sophia Dowling - Incite at Columbia University

Sophia Dowling is a Project Coordinator at Incite, where she oversees communications and social media for Incite and its affiliated centers and labs.

At Incite, Sophia coordinates Movements Against Mass Incarceration, an oral history centering the political ideas and movement-building of incarcerated people, and supports Assembling Voices, a year-long fellowship for activists, artists, scholars, and workers developing public initiatives that bring communities together around locally identified issues.

Prior to joining Incite in 2025, Sophia served as Project Manager for the Racial Restrictive Covenants Project in the University of Washington's History Department, where she led a state-funded archival research initiative documenting the history of racial housing exclusion in Washington State. Her research was instrumental in passing HB 1474, which established a covenant homeownership account and program to assist residents affected by historical housing discrimination.

Sophia holds a double major in History and the Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington (2022).