How Three Young Women of Color Took on Power
What happens when young people are confronted with serious social and political problems that they know are not being tackled by grown-ups? Sometimes they become activists and warriors for justice. In a new book aimed at young readers, journalist Sonali Kohli profiles three courageous young women of color whose activism spurred change in their communities.
Kohli was the Los Angeles Times education reporter for six years and was named the top education journalist in the nation by the Education Writers Association in 2020. She spoke with her namesake, YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali, about her new book Don’t Wait: Three Girls Who Fought for Change and Won.
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.
|