Sheelah Kolhatkar is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where her reporting focuses on Wall Street, financial crime, Silicon Valley, and national politics. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller "Black Edge," a book that explores the rise of a new class of hedge fund billionaires and the largest insider trading investigation in Wall Street history. Kolhatkar was named a 2025 New America Fellow and a Carnegie Foundation Fellow.