Sonia Shah

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.

Sonia Shah