Contributors

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn became the first married couple to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1990, for their coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square protests. Kristof, a columnist for the New York Times, earned a second Pulitzer for commentary in 2006 for his stories on the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Their most recent book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide , was published in September. “Many of the projects we’ve seen abroad have had strong Rotary support,” he says. “We’re longtime admirers of Rotary.” For us, they wrote “How to Save the World,” which looks at humanitarian efforts that make a difference.

Herbert Gold published his first book, Birth of a Hero , in 1951, and his most recent, Still Alive: A Temporary Condition , in 2008. To date, he has written 31 books, including novels, two memoirs, and four books of reportage, along with countless magazine articles and poems. Gold has been writing about Haiti for 53 years, in works such as Haiti: Best Nightmare on Earth , the 2001 revised version of an earlier book. It is a place he loves, but not blindly. In “Paved with Good Intentions,” he looks back at Haiti again, and the misguided attempts to help its besieged people

John Conroy has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Boston Globe , among others. He wrote Belfast Diary: War as a Way of Life and Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture . He looks at how The Rotary Foundation has helped support thrifty programs and projects that can make a disproportionate improvement in people’s lives in “The Virtue of Small Change.”

The photographs of musician Itzhak Perlman by New Yorker Jennifer Taylor accompany Warren Kalbacker’s interview with the great violinist. She is a house photographer for Carnegie Hall and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Wall Street Journal . Craig Vetter’s accompanying piece celebrates conductor James DePreist, who is a friend and colleague of Perlman’s. Perlman and DePreist are both polio survivors.