Press
A curated collection of media highlights, interviews, and features about Sonia and her work including articles, television appearances, podcasts and notable lectures
Op-eds and articles
Selected Video/Film/Television Appearances
Sonia’s television and streaming appearances include on CNN with Fareed Zakaria, HBO Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Democracy Now!, C-Span, and on Bernie Sanders’ Coronavirus Roundtable where she discussed her writing and reporting on pandemics, migration and the environment. She has appeared in or consulted on documentaries including National Geographic’s sci-fi/docu-series Mars (on pandemics) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Crude: the incredible journey of oil (on her history of oil).
Selected radio and podcasts
Sonia has been a featured guest on radio shows including Fresh Air (talking about her work on migration and pandemics), Radiolab (on malaria), PRI’s The World (on migrations), and Think (on human-animal relations) and on a wide range of podcasts including the New York Times‘ The Daily, where she discussed her feature story on emerging diseases in animals.
Notable lectures
Sonia’s been an invited speaker on the TED stage talking about migration, pandemics, and the history of malaria, and at universities and colleges around the world. She delivered the commencement address “The Memory of Butterflies” at Oberlin College (about humanity’s place in the world) has keynoted for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation and addressed the United Nation’s International Organization for Migration about the ecological necessity of migration in all species including humans.
Grants and Honors
Sonia is a 2024 Guggenheim fellow in general non-fiction, a recipient of an honorary doctor of humanities from Oberlin College and was selected as a One Health Champion by EcoHealth Alliance for her work on the environmental drivers of pandemics. She has served as a nonfiction judge for the National Book Awards and is a recipient of a Whiting Grant for Creative Nonfiction and multiple grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Op-eds and articles
Selected Video/Film/Television Appearances
Sonia’s television and streaming appearances include on CNN with Fareed Zakaria, HBO Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Democracy Now!, C-Span, and on Bernie Sanders’ Coronavirus Roundtable where she discussed her writing and reporting on pandemics, migration and the environment. She has appeared in or consulted on documentaries including National Geographic’s sci-fi/docu-series Mars (on pandemics) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Crude: the incredible journey of oil (on her history of oil).
Selected radio and podcasts
Sonia has been a featured guest on radio shows including Fresh Air (talking about her work on migration and pandemics), Radiolab (on malaria), PRI’s The World (on migrations), and Think (on human-animal relations) and on a wide range of podcasts including the New York Times‘ The Daily, where she discussed her feature story on emerging diseases in animals.
Notable lectures
Sonia’s been an invited speaker on the TED stage talking about migration, pandemics, and the history of malaria, and at universities and colleges around the world. She delivered the commencement address “The Memory of Butterflies” at Oberlin College (about humanity’s place in the world) has keynoted for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation and addressed the United Nation’s International Organization for Migration about the ecological necessity of migration in all species including humans.
Grants and Honors
Sonia is a 2024 Guggenheim fellow in general non-fiction, a recipient of an honorary doctor of humanities from Oberlin College and was selected as a One Health Champion by EcoHealth Alliance for her work on the environmental drivers of pandemics. She has served as a nonfiction judge for the National Book Awards and is a recipient of a Whiting Grant for Creative Nonfiction and multiple grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.