From 'The Girl Who Was Shot' To Nobel Laureate

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October 10, 2014

From left: Ziauddin Yousafzai, Jackie Jenkins- Scott, President of Wheelock College, Malala Yousafzai,
Nicholas Negroponte, founder of “One Laptop per Child” Association, Robin Young, host of Here & Now, and Tom McNaught, executive director of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. (Tom Fitzsimmons) — From left: Ziauddin Yousafzai, Jackie Jenkins- Scott, President of Wheelock College, Malala Yousafzai, Nicholas Negroponte, founder of “One Laptop per Child” Association, Robin Young, host of Here & Now, and Tom McNaught, executive director of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. (Tom Fitzsimmons)

Malala Yousafzai today became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

The announcement comes almost exactly two years after she was shot in the face by a Taliban gunman, for speaking out for girls' education in Pakistan.

She endured months of surgeries, but survived, and since then has only intensified her advocacy for girls' education around the world.

Here & Now's Robin Young sat down with Yousafzai when she came to Boston last fall. We revisit their conversation.

Here & Now: A Conversation With Pakistani Education Advocate Malala Yousafzai

Malala Fund

This segment aired on October 10, 2014.