Scholar Talk with Nick Kristof

Join Nick Kristof (Oregon & Magdalen 1981) for a conversation on the current challenges facing the USA and the media.

Nicholas Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose op-ed columns appear twice a week in The New York Times. He is co-author, with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, of four best-selling books, including the No. 1 N.Y. Times bestseller "Half the Sky.” He won his first Pulitzer as a foreign correspondent based in China, and his second for his columns from Darfur. He also has been editor of Sunday editions of the Times and has been a pioneer in using on-line media, with more than 2 million followers on social media. He has lived on four continents, traveled to about 160 countries, and survived unpleasant encounters with mobs, malaria and an African airplane crash.

This session will include 30-40 minutes talk by Nick Kristof, followed by discussion.