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   * National Book Festival 2021: In conversation with David Nasaw
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   * New York Times: Chickens, China, and Climate Change
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“Engrossing.”
-The New Yorker
“Fascinating.”
-The Guardian

Sonia Shah is a science journalist and prize-winning author of critically
acclaimed books on science, politics and human rights. Her latest book, The Next
Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move, explores our
centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and
reporting, predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. A
finalist for the 2021 PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, it was
selected as a best nonfiction book of 2020 by Publishers Weekly, a best science
book of 2020 by Amazon, a best science and technology book of 2020 by Library
Journal, and a Tata Literature Live! finalist for the best book of the year.
Author and activist Naomi Klein calls it a “dazzlingly original picture,” “rich
with eclectic research and on-the-ground reporting,” and a “story threaded with
joy and inspiration.”

“Superbly written.”
–The Economist “Absorbing.”
–Publishers Weekly “Bracingly intelligent.”
–Nature

Sonia’s 2016 book, Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Coronaviruses
and Beyond–available in August 2020 with a new preface–has been called “superbly
written,” (The Economist) , “bracingly intelligent” (Nature),  “provocative” and
“chilling,” (New York Times), a “lively, rigorously researched and highly
informative read,” (Wall Street Journal) and “absorbing, complex, and ominous,”
(Publishers Weekly). It was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s
Choice and as a finalist for the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in
science/technology, the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for
Excellence in Journalism, and the National Association of Science Writers’
Science in Society Award.

Her 2010 book, The Fever, which was called a “tour-de-force history of malaria”
(New York Times), “rollicking” (Time), and “brilliant” (Wall Street Journal) was
long-listed for the Royal Society’s Winton Prize. Her writing on science,
politics, and human rights has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street
Journal, Foreign Affairs, Scientific American and elsewhere and has been
featured on CNN, RadioLab, Fresh Air, and TED.com, where her talk, “Three
Reasons We Still Haven’t Gotten Rid of Malaria” has been viewed by over
1,000,000 people around the world. For a collection of her most recent writing
and interviews on the coronavirus pandemic, please see here. Click here to
subscribe to Sonia’s list.

> “Investigative science journalist Shah (The Fever, 2011) is at it again, and
> if the words, and beyond, in her latest book’s subtitle don’t grab a reader’s
> attention, they should…Yes, Shah is back and in rare form. And this time it’s
> personal.” –Starred review of Pandemic from Booklist

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SONIA’S LATEST BOOK: THE NEXT GREAT MIGRATION


SONIA’S LATEST STORY IN THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE




SONIA ON HBO’S LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER

Sonia on HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, February 15, 2021 episode,
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SONIA ON BERNIE SANDERS’ CORONAVIRUS ROUNDTABLE

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TED CONNECTS: HOW TO MAKE PANDEMICS LIKE COVID-19 OPTIONAL, NOT INEVITABLE


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SONIA ON TWITTER

@amymaxmen @Nature @CFR_org Congrats Amy!

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Police misconduct kills residents & costs taxpayers millions in settlements,
even as officers are cleared internally. @julianejonesjr @CouncilmanIzzy
@david_s_marks @CathyCouncil6 @WadeKach @crandell @CouncilmanQuirk say NO to
amendments that weaken Bill 24-22! #passastrongPAB

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Loved this convo about climate migration, invasions, politics of science and
more with @Alimacewen (my cousin-in-law!) twitter.com/elcinsight/sta…

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#bansoffourbodies #baltimore Today 5 pm, 101 West Lombard St, Baltimore 21201
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A civil rights leader is exactly what @BaltCoGov needs. The current incumbents
@CouncilmanIzzy @julianejonesjr & the rest are so deeply out of touch that they
were prepared to bulldoze civil right legislation that protects us all.
#tonyfugettforcouncil twitter.com/BaltCofairmaps…

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Thank you! twitter.com/ShafikMeghji/s…

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And those fleeing Russia and Assad's violence in Syria were met with closed
borders and worse. pulitzercenter.org/projects/m… twitter.com/rezaaslan/stat…

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With @BaltCoGov seemingly committed to maintaining the dominance of white
majorities and pluralities in 6 of 7 districts in the county--despite it now
being 48% people of color and 30% Black--the PEOPLE must now expand the # of
districts, by popular referendum. TY #Vote4More! twitter.com/allies_pa/stat…

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Count me in. twitter.com/allies_pa/stat…

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@BaltCofairmaps @julianejonesjr @threadreaderapp unroll

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Unbelievable. twitter.com/BaltCofairmaps…

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@peta_richkus @julianejonesjr @CouncilmanIzzy @david_s_marks @CathyCouncil6
@WadeKach @crandell @CouncilmanQuirk @BaltCofairmaps @ACLU_MD @NAACPBaltCounty
@NAACP_7032 @LWVBaltimoreCO @CommonCauseMD Fingers crossed that @BaltCoGov
listens to @TomPerez, @JonBaronforMD @JohnnyOJr @RobbieLeonardSA @JainForGov &
does the right thing!! As @RepSarbanes says, honor the memory of Congressman
John Lewis & others who marched for voting rights on Bloody Sunday, 57 yrs ago
yesterday!

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My impulse is to say "unbelievable," but it's actually not.
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@BaltCofairmaps @TomPerez @JonBaronforMD @JohnBKing @JainForGov @JohnnyOJr
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