Paul Salopek
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Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Paul Salopek was born in California and raised in Mexico. As a foreign correspondent, he has worked in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Latin America. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Chicago Tribune, National Geographic, Foreign Policy, The American Scholar, Conservation Magazine, The Best American Travel Writing series, among others.
He has won several national journalism honors, including two Pulitzer Prizes, the George Polk Award, the National Press Club Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage in Journalism, the Lovejoy Award for protecting press freedoms, a Princeton Ferris-McGraw Fellowship, and Nieman Fellowship at Harvard.
In addition, Salopek has appeared as a commentator on PBS NewsHour, NPR's Fresh Air, and other national news programs.
He holds a bachelor's in biology from the University of California Santa Barbara.
