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ELIZABETH LOWERY
is the chair of the board of directors for the World Environment Center and the General Motors vice president of environment and energy. She serves on the board of Haven, a nonprofit organization that works to create violence-free homes and communities, and she also chairs the Women’s Leadership Forum, which focuses on areas critical to leadership effectiveness, personal growth.
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STEPHANIE MANSFIELD
is a veteran of the Washington Post Style Section. She is the author of The Richest Girl in The World, a biography of the late Doris Duke, and has been a contributing editor for Vogue and GQ. She is married to Tsotne Bakuria, a former member of the Parliament of Georgia and is currently a national reporter for The Washington Times. She has never appeared in The Green Book.
13 SARA MATTHEWS Sara started her work as a wine photographer in 1986, when she and her husband, Thomas Matthews, moved from New York to a small wine village near Bordeaux, France. Their book, A Village in the Vineyards, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1993. Since then, she has done six more books, including Mendoza, Our Terroir, and Chile:The Art of Wine and Washington:The State of Wine was published. K E N T H A N S O N © 14
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THOMAS MATTHEWS
15 VICKY MOON has chronicled the lives of the rich, the not-so-rich, the famous, and the not-so-famous for more than twenty years. She has covered local murders and prominent lives in Middleburg,Virginia for People Magazine and the Washington Post; and written about Middleburg’s hunt balls, steeplechase races and parties for Town and Country, Millionaire, Veranda and Southern Accents magazines. 16
LANA ORLOFF AND SONYA PATE, with over 15 years of experience in the high fashion industry, they joined to form PSI (Personal Shoppers Inc.), a nation-wide personal
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DONNA SHOR is an internationalist who has lived in five countries on three continents, climbed the Great Wall of China, tracked tigers in Bangladesh, raised twins in a Provencal mas and a Bordeaux wine chateau, and hobnobbed with greats from Peck (Gregory) to Picasso (Pablo). She has written widely, from the National Geographic to the Paris-based International Herald Tribune. 18 GAIL SCOTT is the author of the critically acclaimed Diplomatic Dance: The New Embassy Life in America. A veteran Washington journalist and award-winning broadcaster, she is currently diplomatic correspondent for The Georgetowner and a featured host on WMAL radio. 19
CHRIS WALLACE is the host of Fox News Sunday and contributes to the network’s political and election news coverage. He has won every major broadcast news award for his reporting, including three Emmy’s, the Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton and the Peabody Award. 20
MICHAEL WHARTON
left the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health to become an editor at America Online CityGuide where he covers Baltimore.The former editor-in-chief of UC Berkeley’s Daily Californian, can be heard Friday mornings at 9:10a.m. on WTOP radio.
is the executive editor of Wine Spectator magazine in New York. He is the lead taster for the wines of Spain and one of the magazine’s principal restaurant reviewers and travel writers.
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shopping and style consulting company which offers style and image management, gift buying and global shopping tour experiences. www.psi-shoppers.com
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DEBORAH K. DIETSCH
writes about architecture, art and design for The Washington Times,The Washington Post and numerous magazines. Trained as an architect, she has authored several books and serves on Baltimore’s Urban Design and Architecture Review Panel.
NP ANN GERACIMOS who reports on fashion, food, home design and consumers trends in the wine and spirits trade, is The Washington Times senior features reporter. She is well acquainted with the ins and outs of Washington’s social scene.
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