Sonnet Carter is a Brooklyn native. Her love for Classics was ignited in the Prep for Prep program, where she first studied Latin. She continued her study of Latin at Saint Anns School in Brooklyn, then fell in love with Ancient Greek in Calder Classic’s Thessaloniki program. As a student at Yale, Sonnet majored in Philosophy and Women’s, and continued her study of Classics. She is interested in using Classics as a lens to explore other disciplines such as philosophy, art, and linguistics — oftentimes, reading classical literature has served as inspiration for her artwork. Since graduation from Yale in 2024, she has been engaged in fundraising, grant-writing, and communications for Family Pictures Institute, as well as production coordination on related media projects, and assistance with archival organization, curation, and exhibition development. A former Calder Classics student, she returned in 2019 as the chaperone for the Tuscany program.