With her extensive journalism background, Chrystia Freeland talks about the relevance of the Crimea Crisis and the impossibility of inexpensive globalization. Chrystia Freeland’s stellar education was a foreshadowing of the great career to come. She received her BA in History and Literature at Harvard University, before attending Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She entered the world of journalism in thrilling fashion, serving as a correspondent in Ukraine during the height of the Soviet collapse. Freeland went on to assume a variety of editorial and executive positions at the Financial Times, The Globe and Mail and Thomson Reuters, where she was the Managing Director and Editor for Consumer News before resigning to run for Liberal Party nomination. Throughout this time she continued to write editorial columns, focusing primarily on issues of income inequality and class differences, and published two books in the process: Sale of a Century (2000) and Plutocrats (2012). Her outstanding work has earned her the Lionel Gelber Prize as well as the 2013 National Business Book Award. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx