Sonia Shah

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Sonia Shah (born 1969 in New York City, United States) is an American investigative journalist and author noted for her articles on corporate power - especially with respect to agriculture, oil and pharmaceutical industries - and on gender equality with specific reference to issues that affect developing countries. Contributes narratives on history programs.

Biography

Shah was born in 1969 in New York City to Indian immigrants. 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. She holds a BA in journalism, philosophy, and neuroscience from Oberlin College, and lives with molecular ecologist Mark Bulmer and their two sons Zakir and Kush.

Work

Shah's writing, based on original reportage from around the world, from India and South Africa to Panama, Malawi, Cameroon, and Australia, has been featured on current affairs shows around the United States, as well as on the BBC and Australia's Radio National. A frequent keynote speaker at political conferences, Shah has lectured at universities and colleges across the country, including Columbia's Earth Institute, MIT, Harvard, Brown, Georgetown and elsewhere. Her writing on human rights, medicine, and politics have appeared in a range of magazines from Playboy, Salon, and Orion to The Progressive and Knight-Ridder. Her television appearances include A&E and the BBC, and she's consulted on many documentary film projects, from the ABC to Channel 4 in the UK. Shah is a former writing fellow of The Nation Institute and the Puffin Foundation.

List of books

Between Fear and Hope. 1992. ISBN 1-879175-10-X. – editor
Dragon Ladies. 1997. ISBN 0-89608-575-9. – editor
Crude: The Story of Oil. 2004. ISBN 1-58322-625-7.
The Body Hunters. 2006. ISBN 1-56584-912-4.
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years. 2010. ISBN 0-374-23001-3.

External links

Author Website

Authority control	VIAF: 8251956 ISNI: 0000 0001 1592 3404 BNF: cb124596705

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Name	Shah, Sonia
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Short description	American journalist
Date of birth	1969
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