Model Citizen
Photo: Carrie Devorah
Washington couldn’t go more than two weeks without a Bush in town, as the ex-president’s niece flew in to prove she’s more than just a pretty face.
Model and designer Lauren Bush, daughter of the former president’s brother Neil Bush, visited George Washington University this weekend to talk to college kids about how she started FEED Projects, a non-profit organization that gives the sales from their burlap bags to the United Nations World Food Program, for which she also serves as honorary spokeswoman.
Bush and her business partner, Ellen Gustafson, gave a long and tedious 100 point run-down of how their organization formed to be, admitting many times to “not knowing a thing about” accounting/business/marketing/etc. to the student winners of the ONE Campus Challenge.
This, unfortunately, only served to bolster the opinion that Bush’s good looks (and her status as the longtime girlfriend of Ralph Lauren’s son) have played an integral role in the bag’s 35-plus appearances in top magazines and raising $4 million to feed and educate children all over the world.
Then on Sunday night, ONE honored its “Power 100” at the Washington Plaza Hotel with 110 of the most effective anti-poverty student activists. Guest speakers included Anthony Edwards of “E.R.” and “Top Gun” fame, long distance runner Toby Tanser of Shoe4Africa and former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson.
In describing his former boss, Gerson said President Bush “has a penchant for locker room humor that makes me uncomfortable.”
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