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Guest List is Washingtonian’s fantasy cast of who we’d like to invite over for dinner each month.
Rajah Caruth
A School Without Walls grad and rising racecar driver, he recently made his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut at Richmond Raceway.
Laura Hayes
The ex–Washington City Paper food writer is joining José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen. She’ll enlist chefs to help with its charitable operations.
Reginald Dwayne Betts
This Suitland native —an attorney and poet—started Freedom Reads, which gives inmates better access to books.
Anne Lewis
As president of City Wildlife, she’s pushing a DC Council bill that would make new buildings safer for birds.
Lisa Delplace
President Biden has nominated the DC landscape architect to serve on the US Commission of Fine Arts.
Photographs courtesy of subjects.
This article appears in the May 2022 issue of Washingtonian.
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