IPCC & ACC Joint October Program featuring Nolan Peterson is CANCELLED!

IPCC & ACC Joint October 2021 Program on Conflict Journalism featuring Nolan Peterson is CANCELLED!

We regret to report the cancellation of this special Zoom event on Sunday, October 31st.  Due to extenuating circumstances involving our speaker's family and the passing of a relative today, Mr. Nolan Peterson will be unable to join us from Ukraine via Zoom to present his program as planned.  His presentation is placed into a To Be Determined (TBD) status for the time being. As future changes unfold, we will let you know the new date and time. Thank you for your support and keen interest to register for this event! We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to see you at our future programs.

About our Speaker: 

A former U.S. Air Force special operations pilot and a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Nolan Peterson is a conflict journalist and author whose adventures have taken him to all seven continents.  As a war correspondent, Peterson has reported extensively from the front lines in eastern Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In October 2015 he retraced the path of Tibetan refugees on a solo hike across the Himalayas from Nepal to China. He also spent several months on assignment in the Himalayas reporting on Tibetan freedom fighters.

A Florida native, Peterson graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a minor in French. He attended graduate school at the Sorbonne in Paris, France where he studied politics and French literature. After leaving the Air Force in 2011, Peterson completed a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he was a McCormick Foundation fellow.

Peterson’s unique life experiences are the bedrock of his unique writing and journalism style. In addition to his time in the military and work as a journalist, he has run a marathon across a glacier in Antarctica, swum across the Hellespont from Europe to Asia, climbed mountains in the Himalayas, and completed Ironman triathlons. He traveled to all seven continents before age 30. 

Nolan Peterson is the senior editor of Coffee or Die Magazine, a Black Rifle Coffee Company publication, and the author of Why Soldiers Miss War. Currently, he lives in Kyiv, Ukraine, with his wife Lilya.  He is also an Honorary Member of The Adventurers Club of Chicago.