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Ronan Farrow is an atypical child in more ways than one. First, by about age 22, he’s had articles appear in The Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and the International Herald Tribune. He was a witness to congress as an established humanitarian and appeared on major television networks before most of his peers graduated from college. Ronan’s mom is Mia Farrow, the famous actress who had Ronan with Woody Allen in December of 1987, and who was married to Ronan’s dad until Woody decided to leave her for their foster daughter, but that’s another story. Ronan was the subject of Mia and Woody’s custody dispute some years ago. He has been estranged from his father for several years. But early on, it was clear that this was no ordinary child that was being dealt with. At age 11, he started attending classes at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Massachusetts. Although that school specialized in teaching prodigies of sorts, most incoming scholars were age 16. Farrow moderated the biology department at Bard College, Annendale-on-Hudson, New York, and became the youngest graduate in the history of the college at age 15. He was then accepted into Yale Law School at the astonishing age of 16, but deferred his own admission to work with a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (Richard Holbrooke) and to work for UNICEF. Since 2001, Farrow has been the spokesperson for UNICEF. He has done extensive traveling in the African region working with youth groups, helping fight the AIDS epidemic, and addressing various groups inside the UN. In 2004, he traveled to the Darfur region with his mother to advocate for refugees as the genocide began there. The next year, his writings about the conflict appeared in major newspapers and he, with his mother at his side of course, appeared on MSNBC, CNN, and ABC to speak about the ongoing genocide and advocate for help. He signed on to be a representative of the Genocide Intervention Network in 2005 He returned to Darfur in 2006 in conjunction with UNICEF and continued to write about the region with his journalistic endeavors appearing in the Wall Street Journal and International Herald Tribune. Advocating for increased UN peacekeeping funding, Ronan testified before the U.S. Congressional Human Rights caucus. Serving under the chief counsel to the Congress’s House Committee on Foreign Affairs, he accompanied congressmen and women to the Horn of Africa in 2008 where he wrote a column for the LA Times about attacks in the Ogaden Desert in Ethiopia. And, in addition to all that, before his 22nd birthday, Mr. Farrow was named the “New Activist” of the year by New York Magazine in January, and one of fourteen New Yorkers on the “verge of changing their worlds.”