Contributors

WILLEE LEWIS

Willee Lewis serves as the executive vice president for the PEN/Faulkner Awards. Lewis is active in the literary community and has been a long-time advocate of libraries. In 2003, she published Snakes: An Anthology of Serpent Tales.

ALISON LUKES

After four and a half years in New York and Paris and landing her dream job at Michael Kors, Alison Lukes, WL's style editor, returned to Washington ready to dress some of 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

IRENE POLLIN

Irene Pollin is a social worker and lecturer in the department of psychiatry at Harvard University. As president and founder of the Linda and Kenneth Pollin Foundation, she serves on a number of national advisory boards. She is active in fields of both mental and women's health, and is the founder and chairperson of Sister to Sister—Everyone Has a Heart Foundation.

BARBARA MCCONAGHY

Washington Life fashion editor Barbara McConaghy 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.

ROBERT MILLMAN

Robert Millman is a freelance photographer, and has worked internationally as an advertising, editorial and stock photographer. He has worked with the legendary Ansel Adams as an assistant for his book and calendar projects. He lives in Aspen.

BETH SOLOMON

Beth Solomon started her career as a freelance reporter for the Voice of America in Nairobi, Kenya before working for ABC News and Radio France International in Berlin. She was a speechwriter for Sen. Sam Nunn and a columnist for Cox Newspapers and the Santa Monica Daily Press before joining the National Association of Manufacturers, where she is Director of Communications and Media Relations.

ASHLEY TAYLOR

Ashley Taylor, granddaughter of Ann Hand, is the manager of the Ann Hand's Georgetown Boutique and a recent graduate of the University of Southern California.

MICHAEL WHARTON

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 DC nightlife and Baltimore. The former editor-in-chief of UC Berkeley's Daily Californian, he has successfully climbed Monday Morning Leap in Yosemite National Park. He can be heard Friday mornings at 9:10AM on WTOP radio.

CHRISTINA WILKIE

Christina Wilkie is a Washington, D.C. native and director of events at the Aspen Institute.