Sophia Freuden is an open source investigator. Her groundbreaking research on LLM grooming for The American Sunlight Project has been cited in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and other outlets. She has previously held roles at the Centre for Information Resilience, where she investigated Russian information operations in occupied Ukraine, and Harvard Business School. She holds a Master of Arts in Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian studies from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in international affairs from Lewis & Clark College.