Read Between the Lines

To the Kimpton Goodland Hotel in Goleta for a UCSB Arts & Lectures reception for peripatetic New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.

A winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University, the 58-year-old Harvard graduate has more followers on Twitter – 1.5 million – than any other print journalist in the world.

Kristof, who has been a correspondent for the Times in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo, is now a popular op-ed columnist exploring human rights abuses and social injustice, including human trafficking and the Darfur conflict in Sudan, an area he has visited 11 times.

South African archbishop Desmond Tutu described him as “an honorary African” for shining a spotlight on neglected conflicts.

Kristof, who has traveled to more than 150 countries and was the subject of the Ben Affleck-produced HBO documentary Reporter, later spoke at a sold-out lecture titled “Building a Resilient Community: Turning Adversity into Opportunity” at Campbell Hall, with KEYT-TV senior reporter John Palminteri as moderator.

Reception guests include Christopher Lloyd, Tom and Heather Sturgess, Thomas Tighe, Tom and Linda Cole, Roger and Linda Winkelman, Sherry Villaneuva, and Dorothy Largay.