To make matters even more confusing, a former trans friend of his named Sofia Nelson has also come forward to comment on how different he used to be. J.D. Vance used to be a trans ally for Sofia ...

Sofia Nelson, a transgender former friend of Vance for a decade, has released a dossier of emails and texts painting him in a new light. Executive Editor J.D. Vance’s long correspondence with a ...

Sofia Nelson, born in Wayland, Michigan, is a public defender in Detroit. But the Allegan County native was a first-year law student, out as trans, when they met a young JD Vance during ...

Sofia Nelson, a lawyer and former Yale Law School classmate of Vance, warned on Saturday that the... Republican vice-presidential nominee, U.S. Ohio Senator JD Vance, speaks at a rally on August ...

Sofia Nelson, who works as a public defender in Detroit, grew up in rural West Michigan and went on to graduate from Yale Law School in 2013.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sofia Nelson, a former close friend of vice presidential hopeful J.D. Vance, about how he's changed from the person they knew for more than a decade. Now ...

Sofia Nelson is a public defender in Detroit, a graduate of Yale Law School and a former close friend of JD Vance — the Ohio senator hoping to be the next vice president of the United States.

This is the first article in a two-part series addressing LGBT issues and the work that senior Sofia Nelson has done to eliminate biases. The first installment will focus on Nelson's work at Tufts.