Adel Sommer is an undergraduate student at Portland State University's Honors College where she majors in English and minors in Japanese. Adel is the Honors College Editorial Fellow for the 2026-2027 academic year. She is interested in Japanese translated fiction and has studied abroad at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan, in fall 2025. Moreover, she has a great interest in working in the book publishing industry as an editor and has studied abroad at the University of Edinburgh in the summer of 2026 to further her along the editorial path.