Sophia Lee
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Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Past articles by Sophia:
No more business as usual
An economic aid package may not be enough to save many small businesses → Read More
Getting educated on immigration
The border crisis is complicated, but even people who disagree about policy can keep learning → Read More
Iftar at a mosque
Observations from an interfaith evening meal during Ramadan → Read More
Helpers without bylines
Some sources are invaluable in helping journalists get the story → Read More
My immigrant experience
My immigrant friends and I don’t take our U.S. privileges lightly → Read More
Border revelations
Many years ago, I watched a TV show episode in which the main character, a weed-dealing widow, is trying to cross the border from Tijuana, Mexico, back to her Southern California town. She’s stuck in her car behind hundreds of other cars waiting to pass the San Ysidro Port of Entry, the largest land border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana. It’s a sweltering hot afternoon, so she calls out… → Read More
Grasping at manhood
Cultural notions of masculinity turn toxic without a Biblical standard → Read More
Meeting Michael Garcia
An unplanned acquaintance with a wildfire survivor → Read More
Out in the light
Why expose the church’s most shameful sins? → Read More
Rollicking rom-com
Predictable but fun, Crazy Rich Asians plays to Asian-American cultural tensions → Read More
Remembering Jonathan Gold
What an acclaimed Los Angeles food critic taught me about being a bumbling journalist → Read More
Los Angeles and the ‘Bird Man’
Learning to seek the welfare of the city, from the greatest to the least → Read More
Online outrage addiction
Are we Americans losing our ability to be civil? → Read More
Thursdays on the boardwalk
Am I wasting my time passing out free burritos to the homeless? → Read More
Houses divided
What happens when an abusing spouse refuses to repent? → Read More
Hoping for rehab
What do you say or do when a friend relapses into addiction? → Read More
Radical outreach
Early on the morning after Valentine’s Day, I drove down from Los Angeles to San Diego to spend a day with three men who were temporarily living on the streets with the homeless. Among them was Will Cravens, a pastor from Virginia. Cravens first roamed the streets of San Diego in 2014 looking for a childhood best friend who had disappeared and was last spotted in Mission Bay, a popular man-made… → Read More
Finding my voice
I have a confession to make: As a print journalist, I prefer to hide behind written words. I like to sit behind a laptop and stick words on page, so that readers can read those words in their own minds with their own voices—not mine. You see, I have a rather strong accent. It’s an accent that’s a mix of various intonations from my background as a Korean-born immigrant who spent 10 childhood… → Read More
The story I won’t forget
One profile I wrote in 2017 still stirs emotions within me today → Read More
Sweet and honest
Same Kind of Different As Me offers beautiful themes to a cynical world → Read More