Sophia Sepp

Program Manager

Sophia Sepp, LMSW, MPH, serves as the Program Manager for the CICW, supporting research, practice, and policy-related work to increase equity and service access for children in immigrant families, especially those who touch state child welfare systems. She has practice experience working with immigrant serving organizations in the New Mexico border region as well as with the NM state child welfare system. Her research interests include understanding the complex intersections of immigration, child welfare system, and child wellbeing issues, particularly from a cross-disciplinary lens that incorporates both social work and public health perspectives.

Sophia also works as a Program Manager in the School of Social Work at New Mexico State University (NMSU), supporting grant-funded research and training development around improving the relevance and access of social services for immigrant families with young children in the New Mexico borderlands. She also provides support to program evaluation projects of NMSU’s Crimson Research in the Public Health Sciences Department.

She is a graduate of the dual MSW and MPH program at New Mexico State University and received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service with a focus on international politics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.