SAL Presents

An Evening with Nicholas Kristof

Town Hall Seattle—The Great Hall

October 6, 2014

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Nicholas Kristof is a journalist, author, New York Times op-ed columnist and blogger, and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. Although his career started with economics and presidential politics, he has become most famous for his work covering issues of gender, global health, and poverty in the developing world.

The first married couple to win the Pulitzer Prize, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn are acclaimed for their reporting about international social injustices, women’s issues, and Asia’s economic ascendance. In 2009 they received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Kristof has written for the New York Times since 2001, during which time he received an additional Pulitzer for his columns about the genocide in Darfur. The co-authors of two previous bestsellers, including Half the Sky, Kristof and WuDunn’s new book is an ambitiously profound look at people who are making the world a better place and the ways in which we can support their efforts. He will be speaking on their new book, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity, which will be released in September.

Selected Works

Books (all co-authored with Sheryl WuDunn)
A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity (2014)
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (2009)
Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia (2000)
China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power (1994)

Links

The Washington Post: Nicholas Kristof: How a New York Times columnist rewrote opinion journalism
Guernica: Nicholas Kristof: The Crisis of Our Times
TEDxWomen — Nicholas Kristof

With insight, compassion and optimism, Kristof and WuDunn show us that we can all play a role in making the world a better place. A Path Appears is a compelling read that can’t help but to educate and energize.Bill and Melinda Gates, co-chairs of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Nobody clarifies the social challenges of our time, or the moral imperative to help meet them, better than Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Their latest book, A Path Appears, offers an inspiring roundup of the many simple and effective ways in which we can lend our hearts and talents to grow hope and opportunity both at home and around the globe—and an important reminder that just because we can’t do everything doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do something.President Bill Clinton