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Sheryl wudunn born november 16, 1959 is an american business executive, writer, lecturer, and pulitzer prize winner a senior banker focusing on growth companies in technology, new media and the emerging markets, wudunn also works with double bottom line firms, alternative energy issues, and women entrepreneurs. He has written an oped column for the new york times since november 2001 and is widely known for bringing to light human rights abuses in asia and. Husbandwife duo nicholas kristof and sheryl wudunn have won pulitzer prizes for their international work, from their coverage of the tiananmen square massacre in china to mr. Kristof won a pulitzer prize for their coverage of china. Kristof and sheryl wudunn is an agonizing account of how apathy and cruelty have turned america into a nightmare. They were awarded a pulitzer prize in 1990 for their coverage of china and the 2009 dayton literary peace prize.
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