1. Kimberly Dozier was born on July 6,1966 and is a contributor to CNN.
21 Facts About Kimberly Dozier
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Kimberly Dozier was previously a contributor to TIME Magazine and contributing writer for The Daily Beast and covered intelligence and counterterrorism for the Associated Press.
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Kimberly Dozier was stationed in Baghdad as the chief reporter in Iraq for CBS News for nearly three years prior to being critically wounded on May 29,2006.
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Kimberly Dozier attended St Timothy's School, an all-girls boarding school in Stevenson, Maryland.
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Kimberly Dozier holds a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College and a master's degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.
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From 1992 through 1995, while living in Cairo, Kimberly Dozier did freelance work for the CBS Radio Network, Christian Science Monitor Radio, and Voice of America, as well as writing for The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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From 1996 through 1998, Kimberly Dozier was an anchor for BBC World Service's program titled World Update, an hour-long, live foreign affairs broadcast, among other programs.
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From 1996 through 2002, Kimberly Dozier served as the London bureau chief and chief European correspondent for CBS Radio News and as a reporter for CBS News television.
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Kimberly Dozier's assignments included the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the crisis and refugee exodus in the Balkans, Vladimir Putin's election, the death of Princess Diana, the Northern Ireland peace process, and the Khobar barracks bombing in Dhahran.
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Kimberly Dozier has interviewed dozens of newsmakers, including US Gen.
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Kimberly Dozier started as a stringer for CBS Radio News, later becoming a network TV correspondent for the CBS Evening News.
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Kimberly Dozier left CBS and television reluctantly to become the Intelligence Writer for The Associated Press, to leave the stigma of being combat-injured behind.
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Kimberly Dozier was honored by the Overseas Press Club in 2007 and spoke on behalf of journalists who have been killed and injured in Iraq.
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In 2008, Kimberly Dozier became the first woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation's McCrary Award for Excellence in Journalism.
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Kimberly Dozier was seriously injured in Iraq on May 29,2006, in a car bomb attack that killed an American soldier, the 4th ID's Captain James "Alex" Funkhouser, an Iraqi translator, and CBS crewmembers Paul Douglas and James Brolan.
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Kimberly Dozier underwent more than two dozen major surgeries in the two months following the bombing.
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Kimberly Dozier was first treated at the Baghdad Combat Support Hospital, and the medical facility at Balad, Iraq, before being medevacked to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the US military's largest overseas hospital.
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Coincidentally, in April 2004, Kimberly Dozier had been featured in a USA Today article on the safety of journalists covering the Iraq War.
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Fully recovered from her injuries, Kimberly Dozier ran the 10K of the 2008 US Marine Corps Marathon to raise money for Fisher House, which provides a place to stay for loved ones of the combat-injured.
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Kimberly Dozier wrote about survivor's guilt and post-traumatic growth in the bomb's aftermath: The Washington Post, Newsweek.
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Kimberly Dozier wrote a book, Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Survive, and Get Back to the Fight, which chronicles both her physical and emotional recovery from the IED explosion on Memorial Day 2006 in Iraq.