Nicholas Kristof
Women Worldwide: From Oppression to Opportunity
- October 8, 2009
About Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof is a Pulitzer Prize-winning op-ed columnist for The New York Times. Described as the moral conscience of today’s generation of journalists, he is widely acclaimed for his writings on human rights abuses in Africa and Asia. His latest book is Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College and studied law at Oxford University.
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