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front row left to right: L. Bollinger, N. Barnes, E. Robinson, D. Canedy, G. Collins, J. Díaz, J. Daniszewski; back row left to right: N. Brown, S. Engelberg, K. Boo, A. Marqués, S. Hahn, R. Blau, E. Ramshaw, T. Shelby (absent: E. Alexander, S. Coll; N. Carroll subsequently elected) (Photo by Bruce Gilbert/Columbia University)

Board Lander Sub Title
Eugene Robinson, chair; Dana Canedy, administrator

Katherine Boo

Job title
author and journalist
First name
Katherine
Last name
Boo
Location
Washington, DC
Years
2018
2019
2020
2021

Katherine Boo, a former staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, was a reporter at The Washington Post when her series on mistreatment of mentally challenged people in Washington, DC, resulted in the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for The Post. The Pulitzer citation praised her work for exposing "wretched neglect and abuse in the city’s group homes for the mentally retarded, which forced officials to acknowledge the conditions and begin reforms."

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Manohla Dargis of The New York Times

Citation
For writing, both downbeat and uplifting, that demonstrated the critic’s sustained dedication to exposing male dominance in Hollywood and decrying the exploitation of women in the film business.
Tags: 2018
Categories: Criticism

Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post

Citation
For criticism that dug deep into the books that have shaped political discourse — engaging seriously with scholarly works, partisan screeds and popular works of history and biography to produce columns and essays that plumbed the cultural and political genealogy of our current national divide.
Tags: 2018
Categories: Criticism
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