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Go Formal for Freedom - GAIN Awards Gala (Business/Cocktail Attire)
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The Ritz Carlton, Atlanta 181 Peachtree Street Northeast Atlanta, GA 30303
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Description
Join GAIN volunteers and supporters for a fun and inspiring evening of celebration.
Go Formal for Freedom
Business/Cocktail Attire
Featuring
Silent Auction — Awards Reception
Dinner and Cocktails — Music and Dancing
and special keynote speaker
MARTIN SAVIDGE
Martin Savidge is a correspondent for CNN based in the network’s world headquarters in Atlanta. Savidge has covered breaking news throughout the globe for CNN. He delivered on-the-ground coverage of the military build up in Iraq and Kuwait in 2003, and has reported from Afghanistan, Kandahar, and Bagram, where he was the first television reporter to travel with the U.S. troops during Operation Anaconda. Following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Savidge reported from Ground Zero on the search and rescue mission.
Savidge has been honored with some of broadcast journalism’s most prestigious awards, including two Headliner Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, A Peabody Award, Dupont Award, nine local Emmy awards, six Associated Press awards, two United Press International awards and two Women in Communication awards. In October 2002, the National Journalism Education Association named Savidge its Media Person of the Year for his support of scholastic journalism.