
Sophia Madrigal (she/her) is an enrolled member of the Cahuilla Band of Indians and is of Turtle Mountain Chippewa descent. An avid writer and actress, she is a sophomore at Harvard studying Psychology and English with a secondary in film studies. Sophia graduated from Orange County School of the Arts in 2022, where she resided within the El-Erian Acting Conservatory. Sophia is a recipient of the Yale University Misty Upham Award for Young Native Actors 2023, and is the Orange County Artist of the Year Theater finalist 2022.
Sophia is the founder and co-director of the Luke Madrigal Indigenous Storytelling Nonprofit. Under the nonprofit she has performed alongside her sister Isabella Madrigal in the original Cahuilla play Menil and Her Heart, in over 20 different venues including for the California State Legislature in 2022. The play and production of Wildflower: Indigenous Spirit earned Sophia her Inaugural GSUSA Gold Award and her Rupert Costo Medal in American Indian Affairs from the 2022 UCR Writers Week. For her work, Sophia spoke at the United Nations’ Day of the Girl Summit: Girls Speak Out Event in 2020.