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Guest List: 5 People We’d Love to Hang Out With This December

A monthly roundup of people we’d like to have over for drinks, food, and conversation

Written by Washingtonian Staff | Published on November 22, 2021

From left to right: Matthew Goins, Ben Johns, Solana Vander Nat, Andy Stone, and Jessica Stern.

He owns DC’s Puzzle Huddle, which just struck a deal with Netflix to make products built around its streaming shows.

The top men’s pick in the inaugural Major League Pickleball draft is an athlete from College Park.

The founder of an event-planning firm, she’s DC’s new “night mayor,” in charge of city nightlife policies.

After taking a comms job defending Facebook, the Capitol Hill veteran has become a notable online pugilist.

The State Department’s LGBTQ-rights envoy, she announced the rollout of a new passport featuring “X” as a gender option.

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This article appears in the December 2021 issue of Washingtonian.