Taste of Success!

Alfredo Flores

We went to StreetWise Partners' Taste of Success at LongView Gallery. We snapped Avalere Health's Audrey Wessel, consultant Nils Albertsen and Accenture's Alexandra Kaza.

Alfredo Flores

Guests enjoyed sips and samples of some of DC’s best food and drink spots while networking with hundreds of young professionals—all of which benefited the StreetWise Partners’ career mentoring and development program for unemployed adults in the area. Here, Kaiser Associates' Erica Choo, Lily Carpenter-Israel and Sarah Macy with Eagle Hill Consulting's Melissa Kandrach.

Alfredo Flores

Tasting participants included craft cocktails from Founding Farmers, seafood rolls from Luke's Lobster, craft beer from Starr Hill Brewery, crostinis from Fig & Olive and Texas-style BBQ from Hill Country BBQ. There was also an afterparty at A&D Bar. Here, The Advisory Board Co's Ann Silberstein, Columbia Law School's Riley Hanrahan, Fannie Mae's Allison Crouch and Evolent Health's Chelsea Speth.

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StreetWise Partners' mentoring model pairs business professionals with trainees, to provide them with what they need to secure and maintain employment. Here, StreetWise Partners staffers—program coordinator Emily Starace, senior manager of programs and development Jared Launius and senior bookkeeper Angela King.

Alfredo Flores contributed to this issue.

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