Posted by: Barbara Spangle (bspangle@colby.edu) on Mon, October 17, 2011, 2:26 p.m.

Despite surviving a Taliban ambush and spending six hours awaiting her own execution as an American spy in Najaf, Iraq, NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson concluded, "It's been worth it, both for myself and those informed by my work," when she gave the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Convocation address Oct. 16, 2011.

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