Rising Up With Sonali Creators & Guests

Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and executive producer of Rising Up With Sonali.

Francesca Emanuele is a Peruvian analyst and researcher and regular contributor to various online publications. She is also a doctoral candidate in anthropology.

Bernice Yeung is an investigative journalist, currently working for ProPublica, where she covers labor and unemployment.Previously, Yeung reported for Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reportin

Helen Pilcher is a tea-drinking, biscuit-nibbling science and comedy writer, with a PhD in cell biology. She contributes regularly to BBC Wildlife and BBC Science Focus, and has penned many popular sc

Wendy Pearlman is the author of the book: "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora" (Liveright, 2024).

Michael Idov is a writer and composer.Idov was a contributing writer at New York Magazine and the editor-in-chief of RUSSIA!, an English-language quarterly highlighting Russian art and design.Idov

Mark Gevisser is an author and freelance journalist. He writes the review-essay column "The Monthly Review" for the South African Business Day.Gevisser's work has appeared in The Guardian, The New Y

Amy Littlefield is a journalist whose work focuses on the intersection of religion and health care. Currently, she is the Abortion Access Correspondent at The Nation and a freelance investigative repo

Fredric Michael Wertheimer is an attorney, lobbyist, and activist. He is best known for his work on campaign finance reform and other government integrity, transparency, and accountability issues. He

Amy Siskind is an American activist and writer. In 2008 she founded The New Agenda, an organization devoted to the empowerment of women, and she is its president.In June 2018, Siskind started The We

Jessica Mason Pieklo is the Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of Rewire News Group. She is also the co-host of the Rewire News Group podcast Boom! Lawyered.Jessica has over a decade of expe

Eliot Higgins is a writer.

Dr. Sasha Polakow-Suransky is an investigative journalist and author. Currently, he is the Deputy Editor of Foreign Policy Magazine.Previously, Polakow-Suransky was the International Opinion Editor

Cynthia Holden Enloe is a feminist writer, theorist, and professor. She is best known for her work on gender and militarism and for her contributions to the field of feminist international relations.

Mir Tamim Ansary is an author and speaker on the topic of Afghanistan-American relations and Muslim history. He is best known for a widely circulated e-mail in which he denounced the Taliban but warne

Pramila Jayapal is a politician and activist.

Huwaida Arraf is a Palestinian American activist and lawyer who co-founded the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a Palestinian-led organization using non-violent protests and international pres

Mychal Denzel Smith is a writer, television commentator, and author of the book Stakes Is High.