Lunch with Sumiko: To overcome fear, embrace it, says Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa - A Straits Times special

ST Executive Editor Sumiko Tan's virtual interview with Philippines' Nobel Prize winner, journalist Maria Ressa, on Feb 15, 2022. - The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE, Feb 27 (The Straits Times/ANN): When Maria Ressa was 10, she moved from the Philippines to the United States.

Growing up in the suburban town of Toms River, New Jersey, a "short brown kid... in this big white world", as she once described it, she was determined to play basketball.