Sofia Barakou is the Project Coordinator for AMERA’s Therapeutic Legal Assistance Model training program for lawyers in Greece. She has been working in migration and asylum providing direct representation in asylum determination proceedings for refugees in Lesvos, Greece. Among others, she was representing survivors of severe forms of violence, victims of torture, and wrongly registered unaccompanied children. Sofia has also worked as a research assistance with the Human Rights Center of the University of Ghent, Belgium mainly focused on illegal expulsions, and advocacy in Belgrade, Serbia, advocating for the rights of the LGBTIQ+ community. Sofia currently works as Advocacy Officer with Fenix Humanitarian Legal Aid and participates in the Executive Master of Odysseus Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe.