SONALI KOLHATKAR is the host and producer of Uprising, a a daily drivetime program on KPFK Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles. A contributing columnist at Truthdig and Alternet, she is also the co-director, with James Ingalls, 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). Together they wrote Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence. She lives in Southern California.