From left to right: Youyou Wang, Esther Oh, Lucia Leal, Mineko Abe, Lalit Jha, Peter Kleim, Takaai Abe, Nadia Bilbassy, Raquel Krahenbuhl, Kethevane Gorjestani, Marek Walkuski, and Bricio Segovia.
On April 28, 2022, Meridian had the pleasure of hosting a celebration of the impact and contribution of foreign journalists on the eve of the White House Correspondents Dinner. This cocktail reception was hosted by the White House Foreign Press Group in partnership with the Rising Leaders Council of Meridian International Center.
The reception featured a special performance from Suspicious Package, dubbed as "the house band of official Washington".
Attendees of the reception included foreign Ambassadors, foreign diplomats, foreign journalists and press, Rising Leaders Council members, as well as a host of guests from The White House.
Special thanks to McLarty Associates, SoftBank Group Corporation, Twitter, and The UN Foundation for their generous support of this event.
Pili Tobar (The White House), Amanda Finney (The White House), and Fin Gomez (CBS News) (Photo by Stephen Bobb).
Nadia Bilbassy, the President of the White House Foreign Press Group (Photo by Stephen Bobb).
Megha Bhattacharya (The White House), Khanya Brann (The White House), and Asjia Garner (The White House) (Photo by Stephen Bobb).
Puru Trivedi (Meridian), Natalie Jones (Meridian), and Ambassador Jacques Pitteloud of Switzerland (Photo by Stephen Bobb).
Jon Decker (Gray TV), Alexandra Dukakis (ABC News), and Raquel Krahenbuhl (TV Globo) (Photo by Stephen Bobb).
Christina Sevilla (USTR) (Photo by Stephen Bobb).
Nadia Bilbassy (Alarabiya TV), Bricio Segovia (MVS Radio) and Nikki E. Schwab (Daily Mail) (Photo by Stephen Bobb).
Suspicious Package performing at the reception (Photo by Stephen Bobb).
Clara Brillembourg (Foley Hoag LLP) , Chair of the Rising Leaders Council (Photo by Stephen Bobb).
Sebastian Di Luca (Embassy of Argentina) and Lawrence Manzi (Embassy of Rwanda) (Photo by Stephen Bobb).
Lauren Belive and Jeffrey Dressler (SoftBank Group International) (Photo by Stephen Bobb).
Rachel Pittman (UN Foundation), Kathryn Kross (UN Foundation), and Thomas Toles (NewArcadia)(Photo by Stephen Bobb).
Hiroo Watanbe (Sankei Shimbun), Sabina Chang (Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office), and Longman Chung (Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office) (Photo by Stephen Bobb).
Lauren Culbertson Grieco (Twitter) and Jonas Parello-Plesner (Alliance of Democracies Foundation) (Photo by Stephen Bobb Photography).
Kezia McKeague (McLarty Associates), Claire Kaiser (McLarty Associates), and Carlos Irigaray (Inter-American Development Bank) (Photo by Stephen Bobb).
Sara Cook (CBS News) and Steve Holland (Reuters) (Photo by Stephen Bobb).
Mizumi Dutcher (Fuji Television) and Alfred Khoury (AlfredLine) (Photo by Stephen Bobb).
Bryan Greene (National Association of Realtors) (Photo by Stephen Bobb)
Project summary
White House Foreign Press Cocktail Reception | April 2022
