Breathing the Fire

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If interested in securing Kimberly Dozier for your next event, please contact Keppler Speakers. Author's funds from speaking to military or defense-related organizations go to wounded warrior charities.

Kimberly Dozier //AP Correspondent

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Associated Press correspondent Kimberly Dozier covers intelligence and counterterrorism, a job that takes her to the heart of the war on violent extremism in Afghanistan and Pakistan. She joined AP in March 2010, and has been back to cover the war in Afghanistan, and the militant conflict in neighboring Pakistan.

She made the move to AP after being injured in a 2006 car bombing in Iraq, as a correspondent for CBS News. She published the now-sold-out memoir Breathing the Fire, Fighting to Report and Survive the War in Iraq, in 2008, detailing her full recovery from the car bomb that hit her team while covering a 4th ID patrol in Baghdad. That bombing killed the U.S. Army officer her team was filming--CAPT. James Alex Funkhouser, along with his Iraqi translator "Sam," and Dozier's colleagues CBS cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan.

After the bombing, Dozier endured more than three dozen surgeries and months of rehab before returning to her job at CBS News. Four years after her injury, she made the bravest move of all – leaving bright lights of the broadcast news business to go back to print, with a news organization that vowed to let her to go back to war zones or wherever the story takes her – staying true to her principles that you can’t keep the combat-injured in a “wounded box."

Before her move to AP, Dozier was a CBS News correspondent covering the White House and the Pentagon for CBS News' Washington bureau from 2007 to 2010. She worked primarily in Iraq from 2003 to 2006, spending most time of her in Baghdad from her home bureau in Jerusalem. In her fourteen-year-career as a foreign correspondent, she covered the Middle East extensively for the CBS Evening News, CBS's Sunday Morning, The Early Show and CBS Radio News, as well as The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Monitor Radio, Voice of America and the BBC World Service.

Her assignments for television and radio have spanned several continents -- from Iraq under Saddam to the invasion of Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora, to the the Kosovo refugee exodus, to Vladimir Putin's election, to the downing of the US spy plane in China and the violence of Northern Ireland's not-so-peaceful peace process.

Dozier has received multiple awards including a 2009 Sigma Delta Chi award for her coverage of troops on the home front for the CBS Evening News, a 2008 Peabody Award and the 2008 RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Award for a CBS News Sunday Morning report on two women veterans who lost limbs in Iraq. She received another Murrow Award in 2002 as part of the CBS News radio team reporting on Afghanistan. She has also received three American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Gracie Awards–in 2000, 2001 and 2002–for her radio reports on Mideast violence, Kosovo and the Afghan war, as well as the organization's Grand Gracie Award in 2007 for her body of television work in Iraq.

And she was the first woman journalist recognized for her Iraq reporting with a Tex McCreary award from the National Medal of Honor Society.

Dozier has spoken before more than a hundred different audiences about the bombing & recovery -- including the U.S. Naval Academy, the Naval War College, the Joint Special Operations University, the FBI Academy at Quantico, the National Defense University at Ft. McNair, and her alma mater Wellesley College -- with funds from speaking to national security-related organizations going to wounded warrior charities.

If interested in securing Kimberly Dozier for your next event, please contact Keppler Speakers.

KD: A SHORTER BIO

Kim Dozier is honored to call herself not a wounded warrior, but one who was wounded with warriors, and kept alive and put back together by them. A CBS-turned-AP correspondent, she was with troops hit by a car bomb in Iraq in 2006, and turned the attack, rescue and recovery into "Breathing the Fire: Fighting to survive and get back to the fight," about the troops lost that day, and those that fought to keep all of those at the scene alive - and the medical teams that helped put the survivors back together.

The book came out in paperback on Veteran's Day 2011, with profits going to charities like Fisher House, Special Operations Warrior Foundation and Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund, in memory of the patrol members Captain James Alex Funkhouser and his translator, and her camera crew, lost that day.

Dozier left CBS News in 2010 in order to go back to reporting in war zones. She covers intelligence and special operations for the AP.

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