Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof will lecture in Corvallis on Monday, and on Tuesday, public radio devotees have an opportunity to see Luke Burbank and Laura Hadden.
Both programs are presented by Oregon State University, and here’s the info…
Kristoff on Monday
Back in 2009, Bill Clinton talking about Kristof, said, “There is no one in journalism, anywhere in the United States at least, who has done anything like the work he has done to figure out how poor people are actually living around the world, and what their potential is. So every American citizen who cares about this should be profoundly grateful that someone in our press establishment cares enough about this to haul himself all around the world to figure out what’s going on. … I am personally in his debt, as are we all.”
Joyce Barnathan, former president of the International Center for Journalists, once said, “Nick Kristof is the conscience of international journalism.”
In 2020, Darren Walker of the Ford Foundation described Kristof as “journalism’s North Star on issues of poverty, dignity and justice.”
Kristof was a member of the board of overseers of Harvard University, and is a member of the board of trustees of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars.
Some readers will recall Kristof, who was born in Chicago and raised in Yamhill County, moved back to Oregon in 2020 hoping to run as a Democrat for governor. However, the Oregon Supreme Court upheld Secretary of State Shemia Fagan’s finding that he had not lived in the state long enough.
The event Kristoff will be appearing at is the Governor Tom McCall Memorial Lecture, which is sponsored by OSU’s School of Public Policy. According to the university, Kristof’s lecture is titled Homelessness, Poverty, the Urban-Rural Divide — How Can We Fix the Problems All Around Us?
Slated for 7 pm, Monday, April 24 at OSU’s Learning Innovation Center (LINC), 100. Click here to register, which we suggest you do early.
Tuesday, The Making of a Public Radio Show
Live Wire is a weekly radio variety program that features interviews with writers, musicians, activists, and other interesting folks, plus musical guests and comedy. The show is taped live in Portland once a month in front of a devoted audience, then broadcast around the country, where it airs on 200 public radio stations, reaching 300,000 unique listeners per episode.
Live Wire’s host, Luke Burbank, and Executive Producer Laura Hadden, share over thirty years of Public Radio experience between them. In their careers, they’ve worked with CBS Sunday Morning, The Moth, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, and This American Life. OSU Associate Professor Elena Passarello has served as Live Wire’s Announcer since 2018, when she appeared as a guest on the program and had so much fun that she refused to leave.
Presented by the College of Liberal Arts, Center for the Humanities and KBVR-FM.
Free, open to all, but seating is limited to 200, so you need to register, and you can click here to do that. Tuesday, April 25 at 7:30 pm to 9 pm, LaSells Stewart Center, C&E Hall. This event will also be broadcast live on KBVR FM 88.7 and at kbvrfm.orangemedianetwork.com
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