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'''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]].<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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]]. She lives in [[Baltimore]] with molecular ecologist Mark Bulmer and their two sons, Zakir and Kush.<br />
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== Work ==<br />
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]]. 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.<br />
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Her 2020 book, ''The Next Great Migration'', describes both [[human migration]] and [[animal migration]] as a consistent pattern throughout the history of humanity and life on earth. It also describes the trend towards building [[border barrier]]s such as the [[Trump Wall]] on the [[Mexico–United States border]], and the harm inflicted by these structures.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Shah|first=Sonia|title=The Next Great Migration|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|year=2020|isbn=978-1-63557-197-4|location=[[New York, New York]]|pages=}}</ref><br />
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== Books ==<br />
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?294937-1/the-fever Presentation by Shaw on ''The Fever'', August 2, 2010], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?404875-1/pandemics Forum on infectious diseases and pandemics moderated by Shah, featuring discussion of ''Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, From Cholera to Ebola and Beyond'', February 23, 2016], [[C-SPAN]]| video3 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?405263-1/sonia-shah-discusses-pandemic Presentation by Shah on ''Pandemic'', February 26, 2016], [[C-SPAN]] }}<br />
* {{cite book | title=Between Fear and Hope | year = 1992| isbn=1-879175-10-X }} &ndash; [[editing|editor]]<br />
* {{cite book | title=[[Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire]]| year = 1999| isbn=0-89608-575-9 | last1=Shah | first1=Sonia }} &ndash; editor<br />
* {{cite book | title=Crude: The Story of Oil | year = 2004| isbn=1-58322-625-7 | last1=Shah | first1=Sonia }}<br />
* {{cite book | title=The Body Hunters | year = 2006| isbn=1-56584-912-4 | last1=Shah | first1=Sonia }}<br />
* {{cite book | title=The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years | year = 2010| isbn=978-0-374-23001-2 }}<br />
* {{cite book | title=Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond | year = 2016| isbn=978-0-374-12288-1 }}<br />
* {{cite book | title=The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move | year = 2020| isbn=978-1-63557-197-4 }}<br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{official|http://www.soniashah.com/}}<br />
* {{C-SPAN|Sonia Shah}}<br />
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