Sophia AbiNajm is a Research Fellow working on ICSVE’s Police Responses to Terrorism and Violent Extremism trainings. She is also assisting on ICSVE’s DOJ funded Hate Crimes and DOD’s Addressing Extremism in the U.S. Military projects. Previously Sophia assisted with the 2021 Capitol Hill riots interviews, Q-Anon and Escape Hate counter-narrative projects. Sophia graduated in 2021 with a major in Psychology and a minor in Forensic and Investigative Sciences and Criminology. She has a concentration in the sociology of violent crime and deviance. She has also studied crime scene investigation, the culture of illicit drugs and the biological bases of behavior.
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