Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and executive producer of Rising Up With Sonali, a weekly nationally syndicated radio and television program produced in Los Angeles, California.
Previously, Sonali hosted and produced Uprising with Sonali, a drive-time radio show that debuted in 2003, making it the longest running drive time radio program in Southern California hosted by a woman of color.
In 2015, Sonali won the Best TV Anchor Award from the Los Angeles Press Club.
Rising Up With Sonali can be heard on KPFK Pacifica Radio in Southern California, KPFA Pacifica Radio in Northern California, and the television version of the program can be viewed on the show’s Vimeo channel and on Free Speech TV (DirecTV, Dish Network, Roku). Dozens of other community and independent radio stations around the U.S. and Canada also carry the program.
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Latest Stories from Rising Up With Sonali:
- Report from Trans Day of Visibility, 2025by YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali on April 2, 2025 at 3:41 pm
Hundreds of people gathered in Washington D.C. on Monday March 31, 2025 to mark Transgender Day of Visibility.
- Transgender College Student Speaks Out on Trumpismby YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali on March 28, 2025 at 3:00 pm
The Trump administration has made the targeting of transgender people a central tenet of its approach to government. A transgender teen reflects on the importance of resistance.
- Texas Abortion Providers Fight Backby YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali on March 27, 2025 at 3:00 pm
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has arrested two abortion providers, a new stage in a crackdown against reproductive rights, after the state enacted its near total ban on abortion.
- Trump Disappears Hundreds of Venezuelans Into Gulagby YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali on March 26, 2025 at 3:00 pm
Within weeks of Donald Trump’s second-term inauguration, he rescinded the designation of Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals living in the U.S.
- Can Public Education Survive Trump’s Attacks?by YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali on March 21, 2025 at 3:00 pm
Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announced her intention to eliminate the department she was chosen to lead within weeks of her confirmation.