Short Bio
Sonya Dreizler is the co-founder of Choir, a diversity-tech platform focused on amplifying the expert voices of people of color, women and nonbinary professionals in finance, business, and tech. Sonya is also a speaker and author focused on fostering candid conversations about gender and race in financial services.

Sonya is a former financial services CEO with two decades of industry experience.

Outside of work, Sonya enjoys traveling with her family, weight lifting, gardening, and cooking. She is on the board of Foodwise, a nonprofit dedicated to growing thriving communities through the power and joy of local food.

Long Bio

Sonya Dreizler is the co-founder of the diversity tech platform Choir, as well as a speaker and author focused on fostering candid conversations about gender and race in financial services.

In 2021, Sonya and Liv Gagnon co-founded Choir, which now brings the expert voices of women, non-binary, and people of color professionals to conference stages and media stories. Sonya developed the algorithm behind the Choir Score™, and now leads business development for conference services, and is the speaking coach for Choir’s on-demand media and speaker training platform.

In addition to her work at Choir, Sonya is a sought after speaker for national financial services conferences, writes for Morningstar, and is the author of the acclaimed Do Better Series about sexual harassment, assault, and discrimination in financial services.

She is a former financial services CEO with two decades of industry experience. She is a respected leader, practical thinker, and consensus-builder with excellent communication skills.

Sonya previously spent 13 years at Protected Investors of America, a boutique Broker Dealer and SEC registered Investment Adviser.  She started at the firm as an executive assistant and took on increasing roles in the firm, eventually rising to COO, and then CEO. For in depth details on her work experience, please see her LinkedIn profile.

She previously held the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ designation as well as the Series 7, 66, 24, and 28 securities licenses. She is a recipient of the 2023 Industry Advocate of the Year award from RIA Intel, Investment News 40 Under 40 award, is a 2018 LinkedIn Top Voices Recipient, is on the Refinitiv Social 100 list for 2020, and was in Financial Planning's 20 people to watch for 2020. Sonya speaks frequently at conferences, including virtually, and has published articles and been quoted in numerous trade publications.

Sonya is on the board of Foodwise, a nonprofit dedicated to growing thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. Sonya earned a BA from UCLA in English Literature and speaks fluent Spanish. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and their two sons and she enjoys traveling with her family, weight lifting, gardening, and cooking.