Sophia Jones

Sophia Jones is an award-winning writer & researcher investigating human rights violations and war crimes. She is currently a researcher with Human Rights Watch’s Digital Investigations Lab, where she conducts open-source investigations to document and expose human rights abuses around the world. Over the past decade, she has covered conflict, human rights, and security in nearly two dozen countries. Her reporting has taken her inside ISIS tunnels in Iraq, gold mines in Ghana, HIV clinics in Russia, prisons in Afghanistan, refugee camps in Greece, revolutionary protests in Egypt, and beyond. She has written for The New York Times, TIME, National Geographic, Rolling Stone Magazine, Politico, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, NPR, Reuters, and Marie Claire Magazine.

Sophia previously served as executive editor at Starling Lab, There, she explored new tools to capture, store, and verify digital records. Sophia’s reporting has won awards and led to real-world change. Her reporting from Afghanistan for The New York Times Magazine won an award from the Military Reporters and Editors Association. Her work was also shortlisted for the Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism and the South Asian Journalists Association Daniel Pearl Award.