Sophia McLaughlin is a second-year MFA candidate on the Choreography track at the University of Iowa. She holds a BA in Dance and Botany from Connecticut College, where she worked with choreographers David Dorfman, Heidi Henderson, Lisa Race, Shawn Hove, and Ellie Goudie-Averille. Her research centers on the intersection of Dance and Botany and has been shown at attended colleges, the 2019 and 2024 ACDA conferences, and the Sable Project’s Water in the Wood 2021 performance.