What “Access” Means for YES! Magazine
The summer 2024 issue of YES! Magazine has just dropped and is themed around the idea of “Access.” In her editor’s letter, YES! Executive Editor Evette Dionne asks the question “What if we lived in a world where access—to medical treatment, to the workplace, to basic enjoyment—was not treated as an afterthought, but was embedded in every element of our society instead?”
Dionne, who is an award-winning journalist, pop culture critic, and author of Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul and Lifting As We Climb, spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about the “Access” issue.
Sonali Kolhatkar
joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute’s Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice (2023) and Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence (2005). Her forthcoming book is called Talking About Abolition (Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women’s Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master’s in Astronomy from the University of Hawai’i, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on “My Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host” in her 2014 TEDx talk of the same name.
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