August 27 @ 7pm CT
Pilsen Community Books
1531 W 18th St Chicago, IL USA 60608
In conversation with Diego Morales from PUÑO and Richard Wallace from EAT
SONALI KOLHATKAR is an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is the racial justice editor at YES! Magazine and the host of YES! Presents: 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 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.
DIEGO MORALES is a rapid response organizer and a founder of PILSEN UNIDOS POR ÑUESTRO ORGULLO (PUÑO), a Chicago-based coalition dedicated to advocating for the protection of immigrant rights through legal support, education, and community engagement in Pilsen and its surrounding areas.
RICHARD WALLACE is the founder and director of Equity and Transformation (EAT), an organization which fights for social and economic equity for Black workers in informal work and those who have been formerly incarcerated. EAT is involved with research, advocacy, policy development, community organizing, and podcast production. He is currently the board president at Working Family Solidarity. Prior to working at EAT, he worked with the Workers Center for Racial Justice and Chicago Workers Collaborative.