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:
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Living Behind Bars: What a Life Sentence Means
by Rising Up With Sonali on May 3, 2024 at 3:00 pm
For the last 20 years Rising Up host Sonali Kolhatkar has been communicating via letters with Dortell Williams, who has been imprisoned in California under an LWOP sentence.
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A Jewish Student Speaks Out from Free Gaza Encampment
by Rising Up With Sonali on May 2, 2024 at 3:00 pm
As university students continue to hold their ground at Free Gaza encampments on campuses around the nation, Jewish students remain central to the movement.
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Report from SFSU’s Free Gaza Encampment
by Rising Up With Sonali on May 1, 2024 at 3:00 pm
A nationwide uprising led by college students has sprung up to demand an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, it’s on-going occupation, and U.S. arms sales to Israel, as well as for universities to divest from Israel.
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Can Arizona Win Back the Right to an Abortion?
by Rising Up With Sonali on April 26, 2024 at 3:00 pm
The Arizona Supreme Court earlier this month restored a civil war era law banning abortion in all cases except when the life of the biological parent was in jeopardy.
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Understanding Volkswagen Workers' Historic Union Win
by Rising Up With Sonali on April 25, 2024 at 3:00 pm
Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) last week in a historic win for organized labor.