Sheelah Kolhatkar

Sheelah Kolhatkar is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes about Wall Street, Silicon Valley, economics, and politics. She has written about the Uber C.E.O. Dara Khosrowshahi, the billionaire hedge-fund founder Paul Singer, the rise of artificial intelligence, and the future of the American worker. She appears regularly as a commentator on business and political issues and is a contributor to the New York City public-radio station WNYC and to American Public Media’s “Marketplace.” Previously, she was a features editor and national correspondent at Bloomberg Businessweek, where her work was honored with a New York Press Club award. Her writing has also appeared in New York magazine, The Atlantic, the Times, the Times Book Review, and other publications. She is the author of “Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street.” Before becoming a journalist, she worked as an analyst at two hedge funds in New York City.