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).