Sonia Shah (born 1969 in New York City, United States) is an American investigative journalist and author of articles and books on corporate power, global health and human rights.

[4] Growing up, she shuttled between the northeastern United States, where her parents practiced medicine, and Mumbai and Bangalore, India, where her extended working-class family lived, developing a lifelong interest in inequality between and within societies.

[4] She later became the managing editor of Nuclear Times, joined South End Press in 1997, and began writing full-time on developing countries and corporate power in 2000.

[15][16][17] Her television appearances include A&E,[18] CNN,[19] and Radiolab,[19] She has also consulted on many documentary film projects, from the ABC to Channel 4 in the UK.

[22] The annual human rights award, the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship, is given to someone who has done distinctive and courageous social justice work.

[20][27] Shah later said that she agreed to the documentary filmmaker giving the film the same name as her book and stated that it had "amazing footage" of her in it.

[26] Ted.com argued that this book established Shah as a "heavy hitter in the field of investigative human rights reporting.

"[33] The New York Times was more critical, arguing that the book had "no clear focus" and superficially rehashed "the existing literature.