Sophia Anderson is a producer for a new daily news talk show with Nebraska Public Media in Lincoln. She earned bachelor’s degrees in journalism and sociology from the University of Missouri in May 2026. Her previous jobs include working for the News Media Help Desk at Reynolds Journalism Institute and working as a documentary producer on a project with Professor Ron Stodghill. In the summer of 2025, Anderson was a Reynolds Journalism Institute student innovation fellow. In that role, she worked with WWNO-FM in New Orleans to help incorporate more data visualization in its coverage. She also created a publicly accessible data reporting toolkit. Anderson’s senior capstone project was a three-part podcast series looking at the cultural ownership of food in immigrant communities along the Mississippi River, which was published by WWNO.
Anderson is also a published researcher. A study she worked on, “I’d Rather Sit at Home and Suffer in Silence”: Black Women’s Experiences with Weight Stigma, was published in the Stigma and Health Journal by the American Psychological Association in January 2026.
