Sheelah Kolhatkar

New America Fellow, 2025

Sheelah Kolhatkar is an award-winning investigative reporter and feature writer for the New Yorker, where she covers business, politics, and technology. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street, which was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. She is working on a new book about how activist investing is reshaping American politics and the economy. Before becoming a journalist, she worked as an analyst at two hedge funds in New York City.

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