and now, i would like to introduce one star of our evening keith gessen, before , joining us here, keith was the founding editor of m plus one, an influential new york magazine of culture and politics. if you have not read this, you should. go to the web right now and check it out. keith is also a contributor to the new yorker. and, the london review of books. he is editor of three nonfiction books and the translator or co-translator from russian for a collection of short stories, a book of poems, and the words of -- and they work of oral history. he is an author of a novel and he is also writing a new one. i hand this over to keith and i will have him introduce our guest for tonight, nikole he is also writing a hannah-jones. [applause] prof. gessen: thank you, sheila, for that wonderful introduction. thank you all for coming. i'm really excited and honored to have nikole hannah-jones of "the new york times" magazine here as our first delacorte speaker of the year. nikole began her career in newspapers and works at the news and observer in raleigh-durham. working on the education beat. s

and now, i would like to introduce one star of our evening, keith gessen, before joining us here, keith was the founding editor of m plus one, an influential new york magazine of culture and politics. if you have not read this, you should. go to the web right now and check it out. keith is also a contributor to the new yorker. and, the london review of books. he is editor of three nonfiction books and the translator or co-translator from russian for a collection of short stories, a book of poems, and the words of -- and they work of oral history. he is an author of a novel and he is also writing a new one. i hand this over to keith and i will have him introduce our guest for tonight, nikole hannah-jones. [applause] prof. gessen: thank you, sheila, for that wonderful introduction. thank you all for coming. i'm really excited and honored to have nikole hannah-jones of "the new york times" magazine here as our first delacorte speaker of the year. nikole began her career in newspapers and works at the news and observer in raleigh-durham. working on the education beat. she moved to portland

and now, i would like to introduce one star of our evening keith gessen, before , joining us here, keith was the founding editor of m plus one, an influential new york magazine of culture and politics. if you have not read this, you should. go to the web right now and check it out. keith is also a contributor to the new yorker. and, the london review of books. he is editor of three nonfiction books and the translator or co-translator from russian for a collection of short stories, a book of poems, and the words of -- and they work of oral history. he is an author of a novel and he is also writing a new one. i hand this over to keith and i will have him introduce our guest for tonight, nikole he is also writing a hannah-jones. [applause] prof. gessen: thank you, sheila, for that wonderful introduction. thank you all for coming. i'm really excited and honored to have nikole hannah-jones of "the new york times" magazine here as our first delacorte speaker of the year. nikole began her career in newspapers and works at the news and observer in raleigh-durham. working on the education beat. s