Nicholas Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose op-ed columns appear twice a week in The New York Times. He is co-author, with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, of five best-selling books, including the No. 1 bestseller “Half the Sky.” His latest book, a memoir, is “Chasing Hope.” He won his first Pulitzer as a foreign correspondent based in China, and his second for columns on genocide in Darfur; he also won an Emmy for coverage of Covid-19. He also has been editor of Sunday editions of the Times and has almost 3 million followers on social media. He has lived on four continents, traveled to 160 countries, and survived unpleasant encounters with mobs, malaria and an African airplane crash.

American Academy President Laurie Patton to Receive Concordia’s 2026 Leadership Award for Civil Society
The Concordia Leadership Council is proud to announce Dr. Laurie L. Patton, President of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, as the second of three recipients of the 2026

