Kimberly Dozier (born July 6, 1966) is a contributing editor to The Daily Beast. She was previously a correspondent for the Associated Press, covering intelligence and counterterrorism. She 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.
Part of her 2009 commencement speech: You chose a Wellesley grad who spent the first decade of her career broke, begging for freelance work, who constantly heard she was under-qualified, or later, overqualified (that means old) or basically just plain wrong for whatever it was she wanted to do. She eventually ended up with a really great job, doing exactly what she wanted to do, exactly where she wanted to do it; in the Middle East. And she got hit by a car bomb; they nearly took her legs off. She had to come back from the dead, roughly five times, and learn how to walk again. So it tells me a lot about you and your current state of mind that you all thought you needed to hear from me, with whatever lessons I had to offer from those experiences as you leave college for the rest of your life. In short, you all want to know how to be bomb-proof, right? So, you're right. I learned a lot. Most of all, that every time I ran into a wall, I had tow choices on how to face it; hope or fear.
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Release of her book, "Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report - And Survive - the War in Iraq". [May 2008]
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Received a Peabody Award. [June 2008]
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She graduated from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachuetts and was the 2009 Commencement speaker.
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CBS News foreign correspondent.
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August 4, 2006: She left Kernan Hospital, a state-of-the-art rehabilitation facility that is part of the University of Maryland hospital system in Baltimore, two months after she was critically wounded in a Baghdad car bombing.
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On May 29, 2006, she was critically injured in Baghdad by a roadside bomb which killed James Brolan and Paul Douglas, members of her film crew.