SPEAKING & PRESS 

RECOGNITION

• Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social Entrepreneurship.

• Forbes 30U30 All-Star Alumni.

• ELLE Magazine Impact2 Awards Pitch Finalist, NYC.

• Marc Fisher Make Your Marc Role Model.

• Fred Alger Finance Award Recipient.

• #ONEderWoman of the Week by ONE.

• The World's 100 Most Inspiring Women by Salt Magazine and Diageo.

• Top 5 Social Entrepreneurs under 40 by Conscious Magazine.

SPEAKING 

Sophia speaks on topics that include: marketing, branding, sales, startup building, scaling businesses, social entrepreneurship, female leadership, and entrepreneurship as a first-generation Korean. 

Selected past speaking engagements: 

• TEDxGastown, on Women & Power.

• Yale University, Tsai Center For Innovative Thinking, Marketing & Sales Workshop.

• Ladies Get Paid - Get Money Get Paid Conference, Sales Workshop.

• Columbia University's Women's Business Society 11th Annual Conference.

• Korean Startup Summit, Entrepreneurship Panelist.

• Creative Shock Conference, ISM University of Management and Economics. Marketing & Branding Keynote.

• Business, Design, and Technology Conference for Internet Week NY.

• NY Young Women Social Entrepreneurs (NYWSE) How She Does It Dinner.

• Zahn Innovation Center, Social Entrepreneur Spotlight.

• Independent Commission on Multilateralism (ICM), Engaging, Supporting, and Empowering Global Youth with a focus on the Sustainable Development Goals.

PRESS

• Create & Cultivate 17 Successful Women Share the Insightful Books That Supercharged Their Careers

• Crunchbase, Female Leaders Share The Most Impactful Business Lesson They’ve Learned In 2020

• ELLE Magazine, The Social Impact Network

• Humanosphere, Water Collective: A 'Maintenance-Obsessed' Approach To Clean Water

• DevEx, From fashion to designing for development: Q&A with Sophia Sunwoo

• ONE, How water is helping Babubock move forward from its past

• Global Citizen, Ending the water crisis is about people, not tech or money

• Forbes Korea, Challenges of 7 Korean-American Leaders

• Thompson Hotels, Thompson Hotels NYC X Sophia Sunwoo

• African Business Review, Q&A: Sophia Sunwoo on Water Collective and Social Entrepreneurship

PODCASTS

• A full and updated list can be found here.

CONNECT WITH SOPHIA

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