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Sofi Gratas

Sofi Gratas
Rural Health Reporter
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Sofi Gratas covers rural health and health care for GPB. She joined GPB in June 2022 as a Report for America Corps member. Based in Macon, her coverage area includes Middle and South Georgia. Her focus is on the crisis facing rural communities that consistently rank near the bottom nationwide in health and health care.  Sofi is a 2020 graduate of the University of Georgia's Grady School of Journalism. Prior to joining GPB, she worked at the Red and Black and WUGA. 

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Adriana Smith and her son

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  • Health

In the case of a pregnant and brain-dead patient at Emory, answers are not clear cut

The ethical and legal concerns raised over the treatment of Atlanta’s Adriana Smith are representative of experiences in a post-Roe America, some say. 

May 21, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas
A frame grab from dashboard video of Ximena Arias-Cristobal's arrest for driving without a license. The charge would later be dropped but after Immigrations Customs and Enforcement issued and acted on a detainer request to the Whitfield County Jail.

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  • Law

19-year-old who was sent to immigration detention following dropped traffic charges gets bond

North Georgia college student Ximena Arias-Cristobal, who had been in immigration detention for over two weeks, has been granted bond and will go home. 

19-year-old who was sent to immigration detention following dropped traffic charges gets bond

May 21, 2025
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  • Grant Blankenship and
  • Sofi Gratas
A friend of Ximena Arias-Cristobal's family holds up a sign plastered with several photos of the 19-year-old, during a protest against the detainment of her and her father, Jose Arias-Tovar, in Dalton on May 14, 2025. Arias-Cristobal was arrested by local police during a traffic stop and sent to an ICE detention center in South Georgia shortly after, because she does not have valid U.S. citizenship.

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  • Politics

In Dalton, a community rallies for the release of student detained by immigration officials

Local charges against Ximena Arias-Cristobal have been dropped, but she remains in a South Georgia detention center.

May 15, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas and
  • Sarah Kallis
A security camera in front of a boarded up duplex at the Dogwood Terrace public housing complex in Augusta. The city's housing authority is moving forward with a years-long plans to demolish the neighborhood's old apartment buildings.

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  • News

Decision pending in Augusta public housing case could have statewide impact

The State Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on a case that could change the way landlords of public housing are held accountable.

May 14, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas
FILE - In this June 3, 2017, file photo, the coal-fired Plant Scherer, one of the nation's top carbon dioxide emitters, stands in the distance in Juliette, Ga. Global carbon dioxide emissions related to energy use are being forecast to rise significantly this year, driven by a resurgence in the use of coal to generate electricity, the International Energy Agency says. The IEA

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  • Health

The latest red flag for these Georgia doctors? Poor air quality

A coalition of health care providers is urging the state and federal government to get serious about pollution.

May 08, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas
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