Running my name through Salt, I saw that most of the results that come up are related to my academic career. It is super cool that the articles that I published on undergraduate journals show up in the first page. My LinkedIn is also top of the list. I didn’t know that the pictures from the posts I liked on LinkedIn would show up in my Google Images search, which is very funny, but also means that I have to be careful of what I like on the platform. The combination of my two surnames narrows down my searches significantly, as I don’t think there are many Cohen Galvaos out there. On the other hand, if I sign posts with a single surname it tends to get lost in the crowd. For example: when I was at The Brunswickan as a Reporter, I used to write my articles under Sophia Cohen. For this reason, they don’t show up when I look myself up. I could, and probably will, contact the team of The Brunswickan to change my the name of my author profile.

1. Making my blog active again! In the Summer of 2024, I created sophiacohen.blog. I had planned to write about current events and culture, but I ended up forgetting about it completely. The one article I wrote was very fun, though. 
2. Making sure that I write my name as Sophia Cohen Galvao, not Sophia Cohen. As I have found out, Sophia Cohen is a relatively generic name so it gets buried a lot easier than when I sign with both surnames. I realized that my articles for The Brunswickan do not show up in the Google search because I signed them as Sophia Cohen. Very sad. But I can contact the current editorial team of The Bruns to have them change my author name.
3. I have been sitting on a podcast about Victorian Britain for a while, and it’d be awesome to get it out of the paper some time this year. I think it could really enhance my digital footprint.

”Heritage affirms faith in a certain picture of the past, which sustains a certain image of the present and tends to elicit a single emotional response.”

D.A Yerxa, “Why History Matters: An Interview with John Tosh,” Historically Speaking 10, no. 5 (November 2009): 25-27.