St. Anne’s-Belfield School will host its next installment of the Inspiration Speaks series on Thursday, Nov. 21 with Mike Allen, co-founder and executive editor of Axios and co-founder and former POLITICO chief White House correspondent.
Allen will speak at 9:30 a.m. in Brennan Hall (799 Faulconer Drive).
Allen is one of Washington’s most influential and well-connected journalists. He is the co-founder and executive editor of Axios, a new company delivering news and insights on politics, business, media, and tech. The company, whose name means “worthy” in Greek, specializes in high-quality news and analysis easily shared among the country’s influential readers and across social platforms. In addition to starting Axios, Allen was a co-founder at POLITICO, the digital media company that upended and revolutionized political and policy journalism in Washington, New York, and Europe.
TIME named Allen one of its top 140 Twitter feeds, calling him “the Virgil of the beltway, leading the rest of us hapless Dantes through the inferno of America’s political universe.” In 2017, Vanity Fair named Allen to its “New Establishment List,” an annual compilation of industry titans. The magazine previously named him to its 2011 (#39) and 2012 (#19) “Top 50 New Establishment and Powers That Be” lists, and Allen also won the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Merriman Smith Memorial Award for “Outstanding Presidential Coverage on Deadline” in 2004.
Allen is also the creator of the daily newsletter, Morning Money, which gives readers insight into the intersection of Washington and Wall Street. He is the co-author of two e-books focusing on the 2012 presidential campaign– Politico Playbook 2012: The Right Fights Back and Inside the Circus: Romney, Santorum and the GOP Race.
This event is free and open to the public, though RSVPs are requested via www.stab.org/inspirationspeaks
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