Sonali Kolhatkar in Conversation with Robin DC Kelley

For our next Volunteer Collective event, we’re excited to welcome Sonali Kolhatkar for a reading to celebrate her new book, RISING UP: THE POWER OF NARRATIVE IN PURSUING RACIAL JUSTICE.

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Rising Up offers a timely exploration of how truthful narratives by and about people of color can be used to advance social justice in the United States. 

Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and producer of Rising Up with Sonali, a weekly television and radio program that airs on Free Speech TV and on Pacifica Radio station affiliates around the United States. Winner of numerous awards, including Best TV Anchor and Best National Political Commentary from the LA Press Club, she is currently the Racial Justice editor at Yes! Magazine and a Writing Fellow with the Independent Media Institute. Co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence with Jim Ingalls, Kolhatkar is Co-Director of the Afghan Women’s Mission. She resides with her husband and two sons in Pasadena, California.