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Award winning journalist, broadcaster, writer, and author, Sonali Kolhatkar is the founder, host, and executive producer of Rising Up With Sonali which airs as a radio program on KPFK, KPFA, and dozens of community radio stations around the U.S. and as a TV show on Free Speech TV, and a podcast on Spotify and iTunes. She is the author of Talking About Abolition: A Police-Free World is Possible (Seven Stories, 2025), and Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice (City Lights, 2023). Her first book, co-authored with James Ingalls, is Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence (2006, Seven Stories). Sonali is also Senior Correspondent and Writing Fellow of the Independent Media Institute‘s Economy for All project and a monthly columnist at OtherWords, a project of Institute for Policy Studies. She is Senior Correspondent for The Zero Hour, appearing weekly with host Richard RJ Eskow for in-depth analysis of timely issues. She was Senior Editor at YES! Magazine from 2021 to 2025 and worked as radio host at KPFK Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles from 2002 to 2021. Sonali is also the founding Co-Director of the Afghan Women’s Mission, a US-based non-profit solidarity organization that funds the work of RAWA. And she serves on the Board of Directors of the Justice Action Center.
