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Dan About Town: The Best of Bashes, Balls, and Benefits This Past February and March

Party photographer Dan Swartz’s monthly roundup.

Dan About Town: The Best of Bashes, Balls, and Benefits This Past February and March
Actor Sophia Bush and Quentin Fulks of the Biden/Harris 2024 campaign at MSNBC’s March Forth Power Lunch.
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Party photographer Dan Swartz’s diary of bashes, benefits, and galas.

 February 2

Miraco Bubbles & Baubles Soiree at Cafe Milano

Stylist Negar Modarres and Miraco’s Samira Baraki.
Ridgely Walsh’s Juleanna Glover, Irish ambassador to the US Geraldine Byrne Nason, and Adtalem Global Education’s Lisa Wardell.
Tour de Force founder Meg Clerc and Acqua Pura founder and creative director Georgia Clerc.

 

February 12

Export-Import Bank of the United States 90th-anniversary celebration at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building

Deputy secretary of Commerce Don Graves, Export-Import Bank president and chair Reta Jo Lewis, Siemens USA’s Barbara Humpton, US trade representative Katherine Tai, and Dorothy McAuliffe, special representative for global partnerships at the State Department.

 

February 22

Clare V. Georgetown opening party

Clare V. creator Clare Vivier with party cohosts Sarah Cannova and Jennifer Tapper.

 

February 24

Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic Wish Ball at the Waldorf Astoria Washington DC

Carrie Jones and Wizards point guard Tyus Jones.

 

February 29

Fiola Mare Tenth-Anniversary Gala

Fiola Mare’s Matteo Limoli, Megumi Awaya, Fabio Trabocchi, and Docho Dochev.

 

March 1

Party for Kara Swisher’s Burn Book at the residence of Jim and Diane Bankoff

Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey, Politico reporter Daniel Lippman, and New York Times Company CEO Meredith Kopit Levien.
Journalist Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher, and Clara Swisher.
Elson & Company’s Diane Bankoff and Vox Media’s Jim Bankoff.

 

March 2

Greater Washington Heart Ball at the Waldorf Astoria

Stephanie Tulsian of TriLevel Communications with Vishal Tulsian, Karen Brazell, and Diana Ceban of SAIC.
Heart of Greater Washington centennial chairs Karen White and Dale White.
GoodSeeker’s Rob Franklin, the American Heart Association’s Soula Antoniou, and Deloitte & Touche’s Amry Junaideen.

 

March 4

MSNBC’s March Forth Power Lunch at the Showroom

MSNBC Live’s Luke Russert, MSNBC president Rashida Jones, and MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle.
 February 2

Miraco Bubbles & Baubles Soiree at Cafe Milano

Stylist Negar Modarres and Miraco’s Samira Baraki.
Ridgely Walsh’s Juleanna Glover, Irish ambassador to the US Geraldine Byrne Nason, and Adtalem Global Education’s Lisa Wardell.
Tour de Force founder Meg Clerc and Acqua Pura founder and creative director Georgia Clerc.

 

February 12

Export-Import Bank of the United States 90th-anniversary celebration at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building

Deputy secretary of Commerce Don Graves, Export-Import Bank president and chair Reta Jo Lewis, Siemens USA’s Barbara Humpton, US trade representative Katherine Tai, and Dorothy McAuliffe, special representative for global partnerships at the State Department.

 

February 22

Clare V. Georgetown opening party

Clare V. creator Clare Vivier with party cohosts Sarah Cannova and Jennifer Tapper.

 

February 24

Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic Wish Ball at the Waldorf Astoria Washington DC

Carrie Jones and Wizards point guard Tyus Jones.

 

February 29

Fiola Mare Tenth-Anniversary Gala

Fiola Mare’s Matteo Limoli, Megumi Awaya, Fabio Trabocchi, and Docho Dochev.

 

March 1

Party for Kara Swisher’s Burn Book at the residence of Jim and Diane Bankoff

Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey, Politico reporter Daniel Lippman, and New York Times Company CEO Meredith Kopit Levien.
Journalist Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher, and Clara Swisher.
Elson & Company’s Diane Bankoff and Vox Media’s Jim Bankoff.

 

March 2

Greater Washington Heart Ball at the Waldorf Astoria

Stephanie Tulsian of TriLevel Communications with Vishal Tulsian, Karen Brazell, and Diana Ceban of SAIC.
Heart of Greater Washington centennial chairs Karen White and Dale White.
GoodSeeker’s Rob Franklin, the American Heart Association’s Soula Antoniou, and Deloitte & Touche’s Amry Junaideen.

 

March 4

MSNBC’s March Forth Power Lunch at the Showroom

MSNBC Live’s Luke Russert, MSNBC president Rashida Jones, and MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle.

This article appears in the April 2024 issue of Washingtonian.