Sophie Hayes

Sophie Hayes is a current MS GIS student in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. She is a graduate trainee at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s Signal Program, where she is interested in decolonization and capacity-building within geospatial analytics. She is also a graduate research assistant and GIS lead on an interdisciplinary project entitled “Erasing Refugees: How Camps Became Killing Fields in the Congo,” supported by the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University and American University. The project investigates Rwandan refugee memory creation and is supported by a geospatial archive of refugee journeys and mass violence events. She received her BA in Geography and Environmental Science also from Clark University, where her undergraduate honors thesis explored hydrological risks to unceded Indigenous territory along Lake Superior by an Enbridge petroleum pipeline.