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From KQED.

The From KQED in San Francisco, this is Forum.

I'm Mina Kim.

For his New York Times column last year on the looming

famine in Somalia, Nicholas Christoph opened with, to outlive a child is to lose a piece of your

heart. For his column on Ukrainian resolve, he shared, I asked her why she enlisted to fight the Russians.

They killed the man I love, she said simply. Of course I'm here.

Clear-eyed and empathic often describe Christoph's columns.

We'll hear how he learned to use his pen to inspire people to act.

His memoir is Chasing Hope, a Reporter's Life.

Is there a column by Nicholas Christoph that you remember?

Join us. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. New York Times columnist Nicholas Christoph has been reporting practically all his life, beginning with an eighth-grade, mocking a school rule that girls could not wear blue jeans.

He became the youngest national correspondent at the New York Times, then foreign correspondent, Bureau Chief in Asia, before becoming a columnist.

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