Sofía

PERFORMER	Jasmine Romero
DEBUT	2013

Sofía is a human character who appears in Sesame Street video productions representing several of Sesame Workshop's bilingual initiatives.

She made her first appearance in the video Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration, where she mentions that, like Alex, her father was incarcerated. A flashback shows Sofía as a child, coping with her feelings by talking with her mother (played by Desiree Elle), drawing pictures, and writing letters to her father.

Sofía has reappeared in online videos produced for Sesame Street in Communities initiatives, and is depicted in companion digital storybooks. She features most prominently in two series of videos focusing on traumatic experiences (2017) and homelessness (2018). In the latter, it is revealed that Lily's family is staying with Sofía while they search for a new permanent home.

Appearances

• Little Children, Big Challenges
  • Incarceration
  • Building Resilient Kids, Families & Communities
• Sesame Street in Communities
  • Community Violence
  • Coping With Incarceration
  • Exploring Emotions
  • Family Homelessness
  • Traumatic Experiences
• YouTube
  • "Rosita Sings Sing After Me with her friend Sofia", September 22, 2021 (YouTube)

Books

• Circle of Good (2018)
• We Got This! (2018)