Aspen Security Forum 2015

Dozier moderated “Special Operators and Intelligence Analysts: the 21st Century’s Lead Warriors,” with Michael Vickers, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Kathleen Hicks, Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies and Eric Olson, former Commander of US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and a member of the Aspen Institute Homeland Security Group. Watch video of the program.

Red Cross StoryCorps Initiative

On May 8, 2015, the Swiss Embassy in Washington D.C. hosted a very special evening showcasing the Red Cross StoryCorps Initiative. Dozier emceed the event, which included a StoryCorps recording by her father Ben Dozier and sister MeiLee.

See more at: StoryCorpshttps://vimeo.com/127581235.

As part of the Red Cross event, “Black Hawk Down” pilot and former POW, Mike Durant, was reunited for the first time in 20 years with the ICRC delegate, Suzanne Hofstetter, who risked her life to visit him in captivity during the infamous “Battle of Mogadishu” in Somalia. Dozier moderated the conversation.

Intelligence and National Security Alliance

Moderating a panel for the Intelligence & National Security Alliance (http://www.insaonline.org/) and AFCEA.org on what the intelligence community owes the U.S. public. From left to right: Dozier, CIA Director John Brennan, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency director Letitia “Tish” Long, NSA & Cybercom chief ADM Mike Rogers, and acting DIA director David Shedd.

Afghanistan and Pakistan: Lessons and Prospects

Dozier moderating the Aspen Security Forum 2014 panel in July on Afghanistan. Speakers from left to right: Dozier; Jeffrey Eggers, Special Assistant to the President for Afghanistan and Pakistan, National Security Council; Amb. Jalil Abbas Jilani, Ambassador of Pakistan to the U.S. ; Amb. Eklil Hakimi, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the U.S.; and Gen. John Allen (Ret.), Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense on Middle East Security; Former Commander, International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan.

May 2014 Events and News

The New America Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Dickinson College co-host a conversation on the evolving role of the wartime press and whether or not the latest technology is making Americans more—or less—free. Dozier spoke along with: Linda Mason, Former Senior Vice President, CBS News; Thom Shanker, Pentagon correspondent and now Associate Editor, The New York Times; Matthew Pinsker, Pohanka Chair in American Civil War History, Dickinson College; and Dr. Jeffrey McCausland, Minerva Chair, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College. See: http://newamerica.net/events/2014/the_wartime_press

MSNBC’s Hardball on Iraq

CNN’s Situation Room on Our Duty to Get Bergdahl Back

CNN’s Situation Room on Taliban 5 return to battlefield versus growing threats to Bergdahl’s life

CNN’s Situation Room on Bergdahl letters

MSNBC: http://www.thedailybeast.com/videos/2014/06/13/the-authenticity-of-bergdahl-s-letters.html

MSNBC’s Hardball on Iraq

April 2014 News

Dozier joined the The Daily Beast as a contributing writer.

See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-calderone/kimberley-dozier-leaving-associated-press_b_4958312.html and her articles for the DB after an April/May 2014 trip to Afghanistan:

Obama Is Betting His Whole Afghan Plan On These Commandos Read
Exclusive: CIA Falls Back In Afghanistan Read
A Time Bomb in Afghanistan’s Ballot Box Read
Remembering My Sisters in Danger: AP’s Anja Niedringhaus and Kathy Gannon Read

Teaching at the US Army War College, Penn State Law and Dickinson

Was awarded a one-year teaching chair at the U.S. Army War College, Penn State Law and Dickinson. She’ll teach a few days every week in the 2014 academic year teaching one class at each of the institutions in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, while researching and writing a book on resiliency and the clandestine force.
See: http://www.carlisle.army.mil/banner/article.cfm?id=3380

SEAL-Naval Special Warfare Family Foundation Fundraiser

Kim spoke at the SEAL-Naval Special Warfare Family Foundation 3rd Annual Fundraiser at Del Mar Country Club, California. See: http://www.sealnswff.org/news/third-annual-seal-naval-special-warfare-family-foundation-event-del-mar-country-club-raises-1-million-nsw-community-families/

She also emceed the March 27, 2014, SEAL-Naval Special Warfare Family Foundation fundraiser at Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, NC. link

Photo left to right: NSW Kids Board Member Dozier, NSW Kids Executive Director Elizabeth Cruickshank, NSW Kids Board Member Dr. Dorothy Woods, & NSW Kids President Suzanne Vogel