Sophia Batchelor [SEP] country of citizenship
Sophia Batchelor
Sophia Batchelor (born 20 April 1995 in Canterbury, New Zealand) is a swimmer from New Zealand who competed at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships. In 2013, she enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, but has since enrolled at the University of Florida.
At the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games Batchelor won the Gold medal in women's 100m butterfly in 58.63 seconds. She also won a silver medal in the 50m butterfly and bronze medals in the 200m backstroke and 4 × 100 m
December 2017, Sophia's creator David Hanson said in an interview that Sophia would use her citizenship to advocate for women's rights in her new country of citizenship;
"Newsweek" criticized that "What [Hanson] means, exactly, is unclear".
On November 27, 2018, Sophia was given a visa by Azerbaijan while attending Global Influencer Day Congress held in Baku. December 15, 2018, Sophia was appointed a Belt and Road Innovative Technology Ambassador by China.
Controversy over hype in the scientific community