Centering People in a New Economy
Economic growth is considered a of political success for presidential candidates. But the conventional American idea of economic growth is one that , does not consider the , and has fueled , a , and more. What could a people-centered definition of economic prosperity look like?
Anoa Changa, a communications strategist and movement journalist, spoke with YES! Racial Justice Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES Presents: Rising Up With Sonali to help answer that question. Changa is the co-author with Ericka Taylor of an in-depth story in the “Growth” issue of YES! Magazine, entitled “A People’s Prosperity,” which is the first in an original four-part YES! series titled “Redefining Prosperity.” That series is funded by a grant from the Kendeda Fund. While reporting and production of the series was funded by this grant, YES! maintained full editorial control of the content published.
Sonali Kolhatkar
joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Ƶ Institute’s Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice (2023) and Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence (2005). Her forthcoming book is called Talking About Abolition (Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women’s Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master’s in Astronomy from the University of Hawai’i, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on “My Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host” in her 2014 of the same name.
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