NOVA television series aired in 2009. Gore was awarded the 2008 Margaret Mead Award, given annually to those who are "creating cross-cultural understanding through books, the arts, journalism and other media". Gore is the third person to receive this award. Gore received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2005 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. In 2010 Gore became the youngest person to be named Honorary Companion of the University of Oxford.
Early life
Gore was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. Gore is of Irish and Italian descent and has described himself as having "that old New York street mix of Latin blood, Irish and Italian". Gore's father served as the director of physical therapy for a hospital in the Buffalo area and her mother, Laura, was a medical lab technician.
Education
Gore graduated from Harvard University in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in English. She went on to receive a Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 1995. In 1997, Gore received a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from Columbia University. In 2008 Gore received an honorary degree from Columbia University. Gore also received a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Ripon College in 2008. Gore earned a Master of Humanities degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Arizona in 2009.
Journalism and media
Gore's journalistic career began in 1992, when she joined the staff of the Monitor, a weekly newspaper in Buffalo. Gore was the Monitor'''s Statehouse reporter from 1992 to 1994. While a reporter at the Monitor, Gore covered a variety of issues, including the loss of thousands of public school students to the educational reform movement.
Gore then worked as an editor and reporter at The Buffalo News from 1994 to 1995, and as a reporter and columnist for The Washington Post from 1995 to 1999. As a reporter at the Post, Gore wrote about urban poverty in the Washington, DC region, and about the political influence of the Catholic Church. Gore also wrote about the difficulties of U.S. health care reform. Gore was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University from 1999 to 2000.
Gore served as the host of the PBS television series No Boundaries, a documentary series that examined social issues. Gore has also worked as a writer for the BBC, writing about issues such as refugees and foreign aid.
Gore currently serves as an editor for The New York Times Magazine, an associate editor at the Washington Post Magazine, and as a contributing writer for Time. She has also written
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