Nicholas Kristof won two Pulitzer Prizes as a reporter and long-time columnist for The New York Times since 2001. He grew up on a farm in Oregon, graduated from Harvard, studied law at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and then studied Arabic in Cairo. He was a long-time foreign correspondent for The New York Times and speaks Chinese, Japanese, and other languages. Kristof won Pulitzer prizes for reporting on China and for columns on Darfur, along with many humanitarian awards such as the Anne Frank Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He left The Times in 2021 to run for governor of Oregon. With his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, he has written five best-selling books, most recently “Tightrope.” Kristof, who has lived on four continents and traveled to more than 160 countries, was The New York Times’s first blogger, first video maker, and first Snapchat contributor, and he has 2 million followers on Twitter.

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