World Regional Geography Assignment # 1 Nicholas Kristof, Amanda Colegrove, and Leon Yacher have made significant contributions to Geography, and each has been interviewed for the Conversation with a Geographer oral history series at GRCC. The interviews lend insight into their work, and these offer a glimpse of some of the interesting things that are done by geographers and geographically-minded journalists. Directions: Go to: http://grcc.edu/socialsciences/geography View the specific interviews and lectures listed below: Nicholas Kristof, Columnist, New York Times, 26 September 2011. Growing up in Oregon. Influence of father, the political geographer, Ladis Kristof. Importance of writing and traveling abroad. Reporting on human trafficking in Southeast Asia. Amanda Colegrove, Coalition Organizer, Coalition Against Trafficking & Exploitation, 24 February, 2015. Crime Victim Advocacy Center, St. Louis, Missouri Interest in Geography sparked after returning to school following several years in the work force. Research in Geography devoted to mapping human trafficking in Missouri. Addressing human trafficking issues. Leon Yacher, Professor of Geography, Southern Connecticut State University, 21 October 2013. Growing up in South America and the United States. Introduced to Geography by Richard Murphy at the University of New Mexico. Research in the history of cartography, the history of geography in Latin America, and Central Asia. Write commentaries of no less than 500 words devoted to each individual’s biography and work. Thus, no less than 1500 words must be written for this assignment in one document. Do not submit more than one document. A title page must include: Title, Name, and the course number and section number. The title of your paper is: Commentary: Kristof, Colegrove, and Yacher Interviews. The commentaries must be word-processed and submitted as a single Microsoft Word document attached to an e-mail sent to: mdevivo@grcc.edu. Alternative attachments, such as pdf files and google.doc items are not accepted and will not be graded; nor are pasted commentaries in the textbox of the e-mail considered acceptable. The e-mail