2008.04.09: April 9, 2008: Headlines: COS - China: Journalism: New York Times: Pulitzer Prize winner Jake Hooker was a volunteer in the Peace Corps in China starting in 2000

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Pulitzer Prize winner Jake Hooker was a volunteer in the Peace Corps in China starting in 2000

Pulitzer Prize winner Jake Hooker was a volunteer in the Peace Corps in China starting in 2000

He was a volunteer in the Peace Corps in China starting in 2000. For two years, he taught English at a middle school in Wanxian, a small town along the middle reach of the Yangtze River, near the Three Gorges. In his free time there, he learned Chinese. He published his first newspaper article, about his life in Wanxian, in The Boston Globe in 2001.

Pulitzer Prize winner Jake Hooker was a volunteer in the Peace Corps in China starting in 2000

Jake Hooker was born on Oct. 27, 1973 in Newton, Mass. He attended Milton Academy and Dartmouth College, where he studied art history. For two years he lived in the backcountry of the White Mountain National Forest as a caretaker for several backcountry huts operated by the Appalachian Mountain Club.

He was a volunteer in the Peace Corps in China starting in 2000. For two years, he taught English at a middle school in Wanxian, a small town along the middle reach of the Yangtze River, near the Three Gorges. In his free time there, he learned Chinese. He published his first newspaper article, about his life in Wanxian, in The Boston Globe in 2001.

In 2003, Mr. Hooker returned to China to work for the Surmang Foundation, a nongovernmental organization that runs a free health clinic for nomads in eastern Tibet. Western doctors work alongside Tibetans there; patients come on horseback. Mr. Hooker translated for Western doctors and Tibetan doctors, bought medicine, wrote reports and met with health officials, Tibetan monks and other people in the Surmang Valley.

Mr. Hooker has traveled to most places in China writing about rural life, AIDS, ethnic identity, and archaeology. Since 2006, he has contributed research and reporting to a wide range of China coverage for The New York Times.

In 2008, Mr. Hooker won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for the series "A Toxic Pipeline," which tracked how dangerous and poisonous pharmaceutical ingredients from China have flowed into the global market.




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