Judge Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof grew up on a farm near Yamhill, Oregon, where he has returned and established an eponymous vineyard and cider orchard with his wife and three kids. Nicholas graduated from Harvard and then Oxford before joining The New York Times as a correspondent. Nicholas and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement. They were the first married couple to win a Pulitzer for journalism. Nicholas won a second Pulitzer in 2006 for his coverage of the genocide in Darfur. Nicholas and Sheryl have authored five best-selling books together, including Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, which explores systemic failures that lead to deaths of despair in Yamhill, Oregon and opportunities to create better outcomes. Nicholas published a gripping memoir Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life in May this year and still contributes two op-ed columns per week to the New York Times.
