Sonja Benton
- Program Manager, Pride Office
(Sone-ya Ben-ten)
They/Elle
Sonja currently identifies as Latine, disabled, queer, intersex, trans* and polyamorous. They’ve been involved in environmental and social justice programs since their teens and are eager to continue this important work at CU Boulder and beyond. Sonja currently lives with their two partners and two cats, Zuzu and Gebo.
Sonja comes to the Pride Office from Bozeman, MT, where they taught LGBTQ+ studies and ran diversity trainings for universities, health care facilities and K-12 schools. They have degrees in astrophysics, English and scrapbooking (yes, really), which lends them a unique perspective on undergraduate and graduate scholarship and student life. They continue to present LGBTQ+ focused work at conferences around the U.S. Their academic focus is on collective grief and radical hope in activist movements and in the LGBTQ+ community.
Sonja is currently working through their long to-read list, playing too many Switch games and watching horror movies in their free time.