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Sonja Sohn is an American actress. She is mostly known for her role as Detective Shakima Greggs on the hit HBO drama "The Wire."
Sohn is of African and Korean American heritage. Before she was an actress, Sohn was a slam poet, having written lyrics and co-written the script for the film Slam. She has had a starring role as Detective Shakima Greggs on HBO series "The Wire" since the first season.
She is now the founder and CEO of the Baltimore-based reWIRED for Change, an outreach program intended to communicate with (and ultimately rehabilitate) at-risk young people who have been involved in criminal activity. The program is run out of the University of Maryland School of Social Work and uses episodes of "The Wire" as a teaching tool, encouraging the participants to examine and query their own lives and past actions.
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Welcome To My World: A Conversation with Sonja Sohn - Director of ... Sonja Sohn was inspired to start reWIRED for Change by her own lifes journey which began as a child growing up in an underserved community in Newport News, VA and eventually led to her role as a principal cast member ...
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