Endorsers

Mr. Kevin Sites

As one of the world’s most respected war correspondents, Kevin Sites has spent the past seven years covering global war and disaster for several US-based networks (CNN, NBC, ABC). Sites helped pioneer solo journalism, working completely alone, traveling and reporting without a crew. As Yahoo!’s first news correspondent, Sites covered every major conflict in the world from 2005 to 2006 (‘the Hot Zone’), reporting stories that often were under-covered or overlooked by mainstream media for Yahoo!’s global audience of 400 million users.

His past assignments have brought him to nearly every region of the world from the Middle East to South America, from Central Asia to Eastern Europe. During a two-year sabbatical, Sites served as Broadcast Lecturer at California Polytechnic State University, Cal Poly, in San Luis Obispo and was named Distinguished Lecturer by the California Faculty Association. He is the recipient of several awards, including the 2006 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism and Forbes Magazine listed him as one of 2007’s Web Celeb 25, “the biggest, brightest and most influential people on the web today.” Hot Zone’s site was designated by Time Magazine as one of 2006’s 50 Coolest Websites on the Internet. Hot Zone also won the prestigious Webby Award in 2007 for coverage of the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict and was identified as the best online journalism site by both the National Press Club and The National Headliner Awards.

Mr. Charles London

Charles London, a former research associate with the Washington DC based advocacy organization, Refugees International is the author of One Day The Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War (Harper Perennial). He has worked with youth in the New York City Public School system through Kaplan’s Supplemental Educational Services Program, and as a Young Adult Librarian with the New York Public Library in Central Harlem. He currently serves as the director of War, Kids, Relief, a program of Children’s Culture Connection, which brings American and Iraqi youth into contact for fun and educational interaction, providing opportunities for inspiration, altruism, and engagement across borders. He is the winner of the 1999 Rolling Stone College Journalism Award, and his work has appeared in Reliefweb, The New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, H.O.W.: Helping Orphans Worldwide, New Voices, Hadassah, and The Baltimore Times.