Bleeding Afghanistan

SONALI KOLHATKAR is an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is the racial justice editor at YES! Magazine and the host of Rising Up With Sonali, a weekly television and radio program that airs on Free Speech TV and Pacifica Radio stations and affiliates around the United States. Sonali is a senior correspondent of the Economy For All Project at the Independent Media Institute and the author of Breaking ICE, Talking about Abolition, and Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice. She has won numerous awards, including Best TV Anchor and Best National Political Commentary from the LA Press Club, and has been nominated for Best Radio Anchor four years in a row. Sonali earned her MS in Astronomy from the University of Hawaii, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. She resides with her husband and two sons in Pasadena, California.

JAMES INGALLS is a Staff Scientist at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology. He is the co-director, with Sonali Kolhatkar, of the Afghan Women’s Mission, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that raises funds for the projects of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). He is the author of Bleeding Afghanistan and lives in Southern California.