Sonali Kohli

Sonali Kohli is an award-winning journalist in Los Angeles. She writes about young people and the futures they’re creating. A product of Southern California, Sonali graduated from UCLA and has been a journalist for the Orange County Register, Quartz and the Los Angeles Times. She now works to diversify the journalism industry through mentorship, editing and recruiting.

Sonali was part of the L.A. Times staff that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 2015 San Bernardino mass shooting, and in 2020 she was named the best education journalist in the U.S. by the Education Writers Association. From 2020-21 Sonali was a Spencer Fellow in Education Reporting at Columbia University, working on her young adult nonfiction book about teen activists. When she isn't interviewing youths you'll find her baking or in a pottery studio.