Sophia Thakur is an award-winning, best-selling author and performance poet.

She has most recently been announced as the Youth Creator and Educator Ambassador for Jordan’s Jumpman23 women’s squad where she will work on a series of activities throughout the year to empower communities.

The spoken word artist climbed onto the stage at the age of 16 with a refreshing and intimate take on traditional poetry, and captivated a room full of career professionals. Since then, she has pushed the boundaries of poetry to inspire varied audiences across the world from the Glastonbury stage to the Ted Talks stage to countless mainstream TV and radio stations.

Sophia’s powerful messages on mental health, diversity, politics, self-expression, empowerment, women and wellbeing has led to participation at events organised by Google, Accenture, Nike, The Guardian, The Royal Family, Channel 4, BBC, Viacom and the Liberal Democrat and Labour party. Many of whom she has continued to work with. Sophia has sold out three groundbreaking headline shows across the world, including her book launch at the Jazz Cafe in London. Sophia was recently the headline act for the New Voices show with a powerful performance at Union Chapel in London, December (2021) .