One Year, One Man, Twenty Wars Kevin Sites  In the Hot Zone, Yahoo! News  Wednesday, February 18  Junior League Ballroom 1811 Briar Oaks Lane

Traveling alone in 2007, reporter Kevin Sites set out to cover every major armed conflict in the world within one year. He interviewed combatants and victims on the causes and costs of each of these struggles. Using portable technology, he had the flexibility and speed to report his experiences in real-time for Yahoo! on the Hot Zone web site. Kevin Sites has reported from the jungles of Colombia, where he filmed U.S. anti-drug efforts. He covered the war in Iraq and was captured by Saddam Hussein’s Fedayeen militia while attempting to be the first western journalist to reach Tikrit during the initial invasion. He spent nearly six months in Afghanistan reporting on the Northern and Eastern Alliance forces before and after the fall of the Taliban, and shot some of the earliest video of the ground combat. He witnessed the aftermath of the 2005 Southeast Asia tsunami in Banda Aceh, Indonesia and filed pictures of the devastation. Sites is credited with launching innovative web-based journalism and bringing international awareness to a new generation of viewers. Kevin Sites has had a distinguished career in print journalism as well as cable and network news. As a producer for NBC News, he received an Edward R. Murrow Award for coverage of the Kosovo war and was nominated for an Emmy Award for contributions to a series on landmines. He has produced shows such as NBC’s Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and ABC's This Week with David Brinkley. His articles appear in publications such as Popular Science, BlackBook, and The New Times.