Newsroom Archive for 09/27, 2010

 

PLP 2010 Profile: Kathryn Falk
Sep 27 2010 - 9:51am

Name: Kathryn Falk
Age: young
Grew up in: Great Falls, Virginia
Current Digs: Live at Reston Town Center, work in Virginia
Occupation: V.P. Government Affairs, Cox Communications
Favorite part about the job: every day is different
Your first job ever? Docent at Colvin Run Mill historic site in Great Falls, VA and Wolf Trap Farm Park in Vienna, Virginia.
Favorite book? Eat, Pray, Love and Seabiscuit
Favorite movie? Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
Comfort food? Lasagna
What's in your car CD player right now? Black Eyed Peas, Al Green, Sheryl Crow, Donna Summer
Next journey? New York
Favorite Virginia vacation spot? The Homestead, Wintergreen, and Kingsmill
First political memory? Moving to DC from Arizona for my Dad’s new political job
Whom do you admire and why? Colin Powell
Best advice you ever got? “Life is action and passion and those who fail to participate in the actions and passions of their times, run the risk of being judged not to have lived at all.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you could have dinner with any one currently living, whom would it be and why? Warren Buffett or Bill Gates
Describe a perfect day. Sunshine, cool breeze, blue sky, turning leaves, my family
One thing most people might be surprised to learn about you? I like skeet shooting.
Ambition, political or otherwise? Live every day to the absolute fullest.

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