Sonali Kolhatkar

Racial Justice Editor, YES! Magazine / Senior Correspondent, Independent Media Institute

In 2021, Sonali Kolhatkar joined YES! Magazine as the racial justice and civil liberties editor, part of an editorial team at one of the nation’s most reputable solutions journalism outlets. Her 2021 op-ed, “Afghan Feminists Told Us War Wouldn’t Free Them,” won first place for Best Online Political Commentary at the LA Press Club annual awards.

Read her writings at YES! Magazine here.


Sonali is also the Senior Correspondent at the Independent Media Institute (IMI)’s Economy for All Project, where her weekly columns on economic inequality, racial and gender justice, immigration, war, labor, and more, are syndicated widely to publications such as Salon, In These Times, Counterpunch and more.

Read her IMI columns here.

Previously Sonali was a weekly columnist at Truthdig.com, covering domestic and foreign policy. Click here to read her Truthdig columns.