Editing Nicholas Kristof (section)

==Early life and education==
Kristof was born in [[Chicago, Illinois]], and grew up on a family sheep farm and cherry orchard in [[Yamhill, Oregon]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kristof |first1=Nicholas |title=Who Killed the Knapp Family? |work=The New York Times |date=January 9, 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opinion/sunday/deaths-despair-poverty.html |access-date=27 July 2023}}</ref> He is the son of Jane Kristof (''née'' McWilliams) and Ladis "Kris" Kristof (born Władysław Krzysztofowicz; 1918-2010), both long-time professors at [[Portland State University]] in [[Portland, Oregon]]. His father, who was born to Polish and [[Armenians of Romania|Armenian]] parents in [[Chernivtsi]], former [[Austria-Hungary]], immigrated to the United States after [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2010/06/kris_kristof_concentration_cam.htm |work = The Oregonian |date = June 17, 2010 |author = Reed, Richard |access-date = August 22, 2010 |title = Sign in to OregonLive.com |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110609032320/http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2010/06/kris_kristof_concentration_cam.htm |archive-date = June 9, 2011 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://onbeing.org/programs/nicholas-kristof-journalism-compassion/ | website=onbeing.org | date=September 23, 2010 | author=Tippett, Krista | access-date=August 22, 2010 | title=Journalism and Compassion | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905013119/https://onbeing.org/programs/nicholas-kristof-journalism-compassion/ | archive-date=September 5, 2017 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2010/06/kris_kristof_concentration_cam.html |work=The Oregonian |title=Ladis Kristof, concentration camp survivor and longtime PSU professor, dies at 91 |date=June 17, 2010 |access-date=February 14, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021055710/http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2010/06/kris_kristof_concentration_cam.html |archive-date=October 21, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> Kristof graduated from [[Yamhill Carlton High School]], where he was student body president and school newspaper editor. He attended [[Harvard College]], where he was a [[Phi Beta Kappa]] graduate. At Harvard, he studied government, interned at Portland's ''[[The Oregonian]]'', and worked on ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'' newspaper. According to a profile of him, "Alums recall Kristof as one of the brightest undergraduates on campus."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/6/5/nicholas-kristof-nicholas-d-kristof-has/ |title=Nicholas Kristof |work=The Harvard Crimson |date=June 5, 2006 |author=Schuker, Daniel J. T. |access-date=March 16, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604153222/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/6/5/nicholas-kristof-nicholas-d-kristof-has/ |archive-date=June 4, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>

After Harvard, he studied law at [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], as a [[Rhodes Scholar]]. He earned his law degree with first-class honors and won an academic prize ([[Bachelor of Laws#Variations on the LLB|awarded as an earned Bachelor of Arts]] at Oxford, and [[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)|promoted per tradition to a Master of Arts]]). He studied [[Arabic]] in Egypt for the 1983–84 academic year at the [[American University in Cairo]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/casa/notable-alumni |title=Notable Alumni {{pipe}} the American University in Cairo |access-date=April 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200429044931/https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/casa/notable-alumni |archive-date=April 29, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> He has a number of honorary degrees.