Tag Archives: a-lister

Beauty and Brains

Fans were elbowing each other to pose with Miss Vietnam DC, Catherine Ho, at the Pearl Gala. She’s tall, strikingly attractive and charismatic, and brainy, too. A graduate of the Smith School of Business of University of Maryland, Ho is a senior consultant providing “project-based finance, accounting and operational consulting services.” She is going places, and the A-List will follow …

Read More »

Podium Presence

A-List watchers want to know: who’s that athletic-looking guy who has been popping up on national TV lately every time President Obama talks to the press? Moments before POTUS shows, there’s Kevin Xu, a 26-year-old White House press aide, arranging the boss’ notes on The Blue Goose, as insiders call the presidential podium. Here he is, looking businesslike behind the …

Read More »

Leisure Lu

Chris Lu is taking a break from the demands of his top White House job. Lu and his wife Katie Thomson chatted with AF’s Dottie Li at the Pearl Inaugural Gala, several days before he stepped down as White House Cabinet Secretary. His old law school pal, President Obama, praised Lu, writing, “Chris Lu is one of my longest-serving and …

Read More »