SPECIAL FEATURE | THE YOUNG & THE GUEST LIST
Mr. ERIC BRAVERMAN Principal, McKinsey & Company
NBA Basketball Player, Washington Wizards, Founder, Caron’s Coats for Kids Drive
Mr. G JOHN CECCHI Assistant Vice President, The IDI Group Inc.
Mr. ERIC BREWER Partner, Dissident Display Gallery
Mr. DESMOND BUTLER, Reporter,The Associated Press; and Ms. MIRIAM MAHLOW, Director, Strategic Partnerships, Human Rights Watch
Mr. SAMUEL CHALTAIN, Washington Director, The Forum for Education and Democracy; and Ms. SARAH MARGON Foreign Policy Legislative Aide, Office of Senator Russ Feingold
Miss CLARA BRILLEMBOURG Associate, Foley Hoag LLP Mr. F B “FRITZ� BROGAN III Co-Owner, Gin and Tonic and Kitchen Miss PAMELA BROWN Reporter, ABC7 and News Channel 8 Mr. WARREN BROWN, Owner, Cakelove; and Ms. PAMELA BROWN, Consultant, Cygma Corp. Miss E COVENTRY BURKE Fundraiser, The Nature Conservancy Mr. CHRIS BURNS Vice President of Business Development, BrightestYoungThings.com and DJ Mr. CARON BUTLER
Mr. MATTHEW BUTLER Principal, East Capitol Consulting, LLC
Mr. PETER CHERUKURI, Associate Publisher, Roll Call; and Ms. EMILY LENZNER, Producer, ABC News
Miss DONNA BYRD Publisher, The Root.com at The Washington Post Company
Mr. TIMOTHY CHI, CEO, Wedding Wire; and Ms. TRACEY CHI, Development Executive, Clark Realty Capital
Mr. NICHOLAS CAMBATA Co-Founder, 8812 Studios
Mr. GEORGE CHOPIVSKY III Vice President, Simpson Property Group
Mr. HUNTER CAMPBELL Associate, Advantis Mr. TUCKER CARLSON, Correspondent, MSNBC and Senior Fellow, The Cato Institute; and Ms. SUSAN CARLSON Miss ROBYN CARR Associate, Skadden,Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Mr. KARIM CHROBOG Founder, 18th Street Films and Tangier Pictures Mr. MICHAEL COE Chief Operating Officer and EVP of Government Relations,The Hawthorn Group, LC
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: CARON BUTLER WASHINGTON WIZARDS STARTING FORWARD
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ecognized as one of the top “Good Guys� in professional sports by The Sporting News in 2006, Caron Butler, already known as a sensation on the court, is making waves in the philanthropic world as well. In 2008, the Wizard’s starting forward traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa as part of the NBA’s Basketball Without Borders program, conducting clinics, visiting schools and speaking to youth. He then returned to Washington to average 20 points per game. Butler has immersed himself in the metropolitan area’s charitable community because he wants, above all else, to be a role model. He can be found warning kids about the perils of smoking as a spokesman for DC Tobacco Free Families, hosting basketball clinics all over the District, where he gets a chance to preach the 3 Ds (Dedication, Determination, and Discipline), or partnering with the United Way in his
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hometown of Racine,Wis., during Thanksgiving. When winter comes, Butler can be found distributing coats collected from the “Caron’s coats for Kids� drive, but when it’s warm outside, then it’s time for the Bike Brigade. He has given away thousands of bikes to kids in Racine in the past few years and last Christmas did the same for students at Ferebee-Hope Community School. Last summer, he funded the $10,000 renovation of the Cops ’N Kids reading center run by Julia Burney-Witherspoon, a retired police officer who kept him out of trouble when he was growing up. It’s all part of his legacy project, which encourages strong relationships between children and law enforcement. Butler never forgets where he came from and knows that by giving back the effects will be long lasting.
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