Sónia Vaz Borges is a militant interdisciplinary historian and social-political organizer. She received her PhD in History of Education from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU). She is the author of the book, Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963–1978 (2019) and Ragás Because the sea has no place to grab. A memoir of home, migration, and African liberation (2024). As a result of her research Vaz Borges co-authored the short films,
Navigating the Pilot School (2016); Mangrove School (2022), and Weaving Stories while Walking (2024. In 2024, she co-curated the Portuguese pavilion at the La Biennale di Venezia with the project Greenhouse. Together with Mónica de Miranda they curated the exhibition catalog Greenhouse- Art, Ecology & Resistance (2024). She is currently an Assistant Professor in History and Africana Studies at Drexel University in Philadelphia (USA).