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Nov 2023
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Extra Credit: Your Stories (Sophie Fergi...

Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, Sophie Ansari
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Join us this week for our second extra credit YOUR STORY episode, where we devote an entire episode to a conversation with a listener. Today we we talk to our youngest guest ever— 16 year old Sophie Fergi shares about how severe bullying in middle school led to a home-schooling journey that has culminated in a very prominent online presence on social media. She shares what she’s learned about navigating hate, both from peers in real life, and trolls on the internet. 


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