Athena Sofides is a queer environmental scientist and model with insulin-dependent diabetes born, raised, and based in Brooklyn, New York. Athena advocates for free and accessible insulin for all, as well as for health justice more broadly, and translates research on health equity into writing and speaking projects.

Since 2022, Athena has worked in studios and on professional sets, modelling for a range of clients including Target and Invisalign. Athena has also walked runway shows for local designers in New Haven, Connecticut, and Brooklyn, New York. 

Even as it takes different forms, Athena’s work on environment, health, and medicine access animate almost everything they do, and they look forward to a world in which access to dignified and appropriate healthcare, bodily autonomy, and thriving community is available to each and every person. Athena enjoys spending time with loved ones, traveling, writing poems and essays, and trying new foods (especially cheese).