Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof will lecture in Corvallis next month, and you may want to register a little early.
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.
Event Info
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.
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