SIM KHAN Attorney and Creative Head, Brimble & Clark Custom Clothiers SUZANNE KIANPOUR Capitol Hill Producer, BBC News CAROLYN AMIRPASHAIE KING Director of Operations, Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) ALBERT KLEINE Economist, Bureau of Labor Statistics JULIE KOHLER Executive Vice President and Chief Operationg Officer, The Democracy Alliance AJAY KORI Co-Founder, UrbanStems CARINE KRAWIEC Owner, Carine’s Bridal Atelier JACKIE KUCINICH Politics Reporter, The Washington Post
TONY AND RAFFI WILLIAMS are considered two of the brightest young minds in the Republican Party. As director of government affairs for Comcast,Tony helped create and launch the company’s Internet Essentials program, which has connected 1.4 million lowincome Americans to the Internet. Raffi, deputy press secretary for the Republican National Committee, was instrumental in aiding the RNC to usher in a new Republican majority in the Senate and the largest majority in the House since World War II. Both brothers count their father, Juan Williams, as their mentor and call him a man who shaped them into who they are today. TONY What is your advice for newcomers to your field? “Listen more than you speak. In fact for every minute you spend talking, spend at least four times that long listening.� RAFFI Whom do you admire professionally? “My boss Reince Priebus, who has reinvented the role of the modern political party.�
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