Sonja (she/they) is a Two-Spirit person of Scotch-Me'tis and Danish ancestry. Their closest family members are her daughter, the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, Lake Winnipeg and the land and shores between Brokenhead Ojibwe Nation and Sagkeeng First Nation. A longtime resident of Winnipeg's North End and West End neighbourhoods, Sonja is a proud and active member of the Manitoba Me'tis Federation's Two-Spirit Michif Local.

Sonja has been fiercely committed to social justice for the past 20 years and has worked at the grassroots level to make Manitoba a place where people can access comprehensive trans healthcare within-province. She has also been engaged with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission to create policy change that values safety, equity and accurate representation for 2SLGBTQIA+ people in all Manitoba schools.

To earn money, Sonja has been a farmer, a secretary, a bartender, a legal assistant and most recently is the owner/operator of a small but very successful anti-oppressive housekeeping business. She also works at Heartwood Healing Centre within the peer support program and is working for CEDA Pathways to Education as a research assistant.

Sonja is in the final year of their undergraduate degree at the Inner-City Social Work Program and is doing her field placement in the Faculty of Social Work's EDIDI Committee. In 2024, she received the U of M's Undergraduate Research Award for her work on moral courage in social work with Dr. Jennifer Hedges.

Outside of work and school, Sonja enjoys houseplants, shitposting as pedagogy, scream-laughing with their growing chosen family, harvesting and eating country foods, and researching her Red River Me'tis ancestors.