Nicholas Kristof: On Chasing Hope—A Reporter's Life

Nicholas Kristof has worked almost nonstop for The New York Times as a reporter, foreign correspondent, bureau chief, and now columnist. Join us as he returns to Commonwealth Club World Affairs and recounts the event-filled path from a small-town farm in Oregon to every corner of the world.

Kristof, a Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author, has reported from Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, as well as India, Africa and Europe. In the process, he has witnessed and written about century-defining events such as the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the Yemeni civil war, the Darfur genocide in Sudan, and the wave of addiction and despair that swept through his hometown and a broad swath of working-class America.

Kristof will introduces us to some of the extraordinary people he has met, such as the dissident whom he helped escape from China and a Catholic nun who browbeat a warlord into releasing schoolgirls he had kidnapped. These are the people, the heroes, who have allowed Kristof to remain optimistic even as he witnesses the worst of humanity.

SPEAKERS

Nicholas Kristof, Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Author, Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life; X @NickKristof

In Conversation with Dan Ashley, Anchor, ABC7 News; Member, Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California Board of Governors; X @DanAshleyABC7

11:30 a.m. doors open & check-in
12–1 p.m. program
1 p.m. book signing
(all times Pacific)

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