Sonali Kolhatkar
Journalist. Activist. Artist.

Latest Stories from Rising Up With Sonali

Watch and listen to the latest interviews by Sonali Kolhatkar.

  • Sonali Kolhatkar on Democracy Now!

    On Tuesday January 7, 2025, Rising Up With Sonali host, Sonali Kolhatkar, evacuated her family as the Eaton Fire blazed through her neighboring town of Altadena and headed toward North Pasadena where she lives. In the wake of one of the worst wildfires in California history, Democracy Now! interviewed Kolhatkar

  • Altadena and North Pasadena Neighbors Rise Up for Mutual Aid

    Members of the tight-knit communities of Altadena and North Pasadena as well as others from the greater Los Angeles region are helping people pick up the pieces from the Eaton Fire.

  • Victims of Eaton Fire Share Their Stories

    Here are the stories of two people who lost their homes to the devastating Eaton Fire.

  • New Book by Sonali Kolhatkar

    Abolitionist thinkers have been envisioning police-free communities for decades, but only in the aftershock of the racial justice uprisings of 2020 have their radical ideas entered into mainstream discourse. 💡Featuring interviews with Alicia Garza, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Leah Penniman, Gina Dent, Cat Brooks, Andrea Ritchie, Eunisses Hernandes, Noelle

  • Talking About Abolition: Participatory Budgeting

    As an outspoken abolitionist of policing and prisons, Prof. Melina Abdullah has championed defunding the police using a concrete, practical, and deeply democratic method of participatory budgeting.