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Lunch or Dinner with Juliet Eilperin  -  Author & Journalist  - in Washington, DC.

Juliet Eilperin graduated in 1992 magna cum laude from Princeton University, where she received a bachelor’s in Politics with a certificate in Latin American Studies.

In the fall of 1992 she went to Seoul, South Korea on a Luce Scholarship, which allowed her to cover politics and economics for an English-language magazine. Returning to Washington, Juliet wrote for Louisiana and Florida newspapers at States News Service and then joined Roll Call newspaper after the 1994 Congressional election.

In March 1998 she joined The Washington Post as its House of Representatives reporter, where she covered the impeachment of Bill Clinton, lobbying, legislation, and four national congressional campaigns. During her first year at the Post she was the most prolific writer on the news staff, writing more than 200 stories.

Since April 2004, she has covered the environment for the national desk, reporting on science, policy and politics in areas including climate change, oceans, and air quality. In pursuit of these stories she has gone  trekking on the Arctic tundra, searched on her hands and knees for rare insects in the caves of Tennessee, and dived with sharks in the Bahamas.

In the spring of 2005 she served as the McGraw Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, teaching political reporting to a group of undergraduate and graduate students. 

Juliet is the author of Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks, in which she investigated the fascinating ways different individuals and cultures relate to sharks, why movie stars and professional athletes go shark hunting in Miami, and why sharkfin soup remains a status symbol in China. She shows how people and sharks exist alongside one another: surfers in Cape Town and ecotourists swimming with sharks in the Yucatan.

Item Special Note

Being auctioned is dinner or lunch with one the world’s foremost shark experts or celebrities. It is a unique opportunity to “talk shark” face-to-face, one-on-one, with a real authority on sharks. 

How it works:

1. Bid on a celebrity, shark scientist or conservationist that lives or works in your area, unless you are willing to drive or fly to meet them in their area.

2. The winning bidder pays for the lunch or dinner and may bring as many guests as he or she wishes.

3. We will introduce the winning bidder to the celebrity, scientist or conservationist. The two of you then set a mutually agreeable  date, time and place to meet within one year of the close of the auction.

All winning bids are charitable contributions deductible from US Federal 2013 income taxes.  Funds raised by the auction will be used to support shark research and conservation programs.