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Katherine Skiba is a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report. She was previously the Washington, D.C. correspondent for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Ms. Skiba is a 20-year veteran award-winning journalist, writer, and photographer.[CR-LF][CR-LF]She has covered major stories in foreign countries all over the world, including the war in Iraq, the September 11 terror attack on the Pentagon, presidential campaigns, the Oklahoma City bombing, the U.S. peacekeeping mission in the Balkans, and the funeral of Princess Diana of Wales.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Ms. Skiba chronicled her experiences as the only female civilian among the 2,300 soldiers of the U.S. Army's 159th Aviation Brigade. From "media boot camp" to the kick-off of Operation Iraqi Freedom to the fall of Baghdad, including a missile attack on the brigade's desert camp, Ms. Skiba's experiences through these events as a journalist were published in a memoir, titled "Sister in the Band of Brothers."[CR-LF][CR-LF]Ms. Skiba is a recipient of twenty-four awards for her investigative news stories and features, one which resulted in an award from the Alliance for the Mentally Ill.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Ms. Skiba received her bachelor's degree in journalism at Marquette University and was named as an "Outstanding Graduate in Journalism" by Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists.

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