Contributors

NURITH AIZENMANN

N.C. Aizenman was The Washington Post's Afghanistan Correspondent for most of 2005. A five-year veteran of the paper, she will take on coverage of Central America and Central American immigrant communities in 2006. Before joining The Washington Post, Aizenman was Executive Editor of The New Republic magazine, an editor at The Washington Monthly, and an associate producer at CNN.

MONIKA APPONYIVON EICHEL

Monika Apponyi-von Eichel has worked as an interior designer for over 25 years and successfully executed projects throughout Europe and the U.S. Her work includes banks, hotels, golf clubs and private homes. Her work has been featured in House and Garden in Spain, Great Britain, Germany, as well as Architectural Digest and various interior design books such as the Andrew Martin's book Interior Design Review. She has received various prizes in interior design competitions in London.

MARY BIRD

After heading up the translating division at the U.S. Department of State, Mary Bird has pursued her interest in journalism and fashion, writing for publications including The Georgetowner, which features her regular social column Bird's Eye View.

JANET DONOVAN

Janet Donovan is the founder and president of Creative Enterprises International, a Washington, D.C. publicity firm whose clients include celebrities, authors, politicians and publications. She created and hosted The Beltway Broads radio show and writes the column Hollywood on the Potomac.

DONNA EVERS

Donna Evers has more than 28 years experience in residential real estate in the Washington Metro marketplace. She was one of the most successful sales agents in the area before starting her own company, and, now as the principal of Evers & Co., manages a team of award-winning agents.

CAROL JOYNT

Carol Joynt, a former producer for Larry King, Charlie Rose and Chris Matthews, is the owner of the popular Georgetown restaurant Nathans. After 9/11, Joynt began hosting monthly neighborhood power lunches called Q & A Cafe. With such guests as Tom Brokaw, Dan Snyder, and Tim Russert, the lunches feature the city's best known figures speaking candidly in an intimate atmosphere. When not at Nathans, Joynt focuses her time on her priorities: raising her son, Spencer, their dog, Leo, and their bird, Ozzy, as well as writing her memoir, "Innocent Spouse."

ALISON LUKES

After landing her dream job at Michael Kors and spending four and a half years in New York and Paris, Alison Lukes, WL's style editor, returned to Washington ready to dress the city's power players. As a personal stylist, she helps many of the city's best dressed women find the appropriate and chic wardrobe. She heads up her own company, Alison Lukes et Cie. www. alisonlukes.com

NORA MACCOBY

Born in Mexico City, Nora Maccoby is nevertheless, a true DC native. A violin student of Sheila Johnson from ages five to eighteen, she went on to form the art pop band Swimteam' in Los Angeles, and ‘the Visionary Orchestra', a fusion of Indian Raga music, Scottish fugues, and punk rock, while living in Grenada, the West Indies. She is a gnostic scholar, an award winning filmmaker and screenwriter (Buffalo Soldiers, Bongwater) and co-founder of the non-partisan, non-profit energy literacy initiative, Nature's Partners.

BARBARA MCCONAGHY

Barbara McConaghy, Washington Life fashion editor is a nationally recognized stylist, fashion show producer and editor. In upcoming issues she'll share her views on Washington men's and women's fashion, and the city's celebrity style. Her work has appeared in Elle and Detour magazines, and locally in the Washingtonian, Baltimore Magazine, DC Style and special sections of The Washington Post. She has produced national tours for YM and Seventeen magazines and dressed such stars as Lauren Hutton, Brandy, and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

PAT MITCHELL

Pat Mitchell was named the first woman president and chief executive officer of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in March 2000 after a long and respected career in commercial broadcasting and cable. In her three-decade career in media, Mitchell has worked for NBC, CBS, and ABC as, respectively, a network correspondent, a news anchor, and a producer/ host of an Emmy award-winning talk program. After working as an independent executive producer, Mitchell joined Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., where she was president of the original programming division of CNN. Her work has been recognized with 37 Emmys and five Peabody Awards and two Academy Award nominations.

CHRIS MURRAY

After earning his B.A. degree in philosophy at Georgetown University, Chris Murray founded Govinda Gallery in 1975, also in Georgetown. Exhibition highlights have included Andy Warhol, with whom the gallery was closely associated: the first exhibition of Annie Leibowitz's photographs; and a 20th Anniversary exhibition featuring photographs of Mohammed Ali by Howard Bingham. Govinda Gallery publishes catalogues for many of its exhibitions, which Murray edit. Govinda Gallery celebrated its 30th anniversary this fall.

GENE STEUERLE

Co-founder of Our Voices Together, a senior fellow at The Urban Institute, codirector of the Urban- Brookings Tax Policy Center, columnist for Tax Notes, and author or editor of 11 books, more than 150 reports and articles, 50 Congressional testimonies or reports, and 600 columns. He serves on the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics and on advisory panels or boards for the Congressional Budget Office, the General Accounting Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Actuarial Foundation, and the Independent Sector. Dr. Steuerle has also undertaken various missions for the International Monetary Fund to China, Singapore, and Slovakia, and the government of Barbados undertook a tax reform effort modeled after a report he coauthored.