Leadership

Andrea Rodgers, President & CEO

Andrea Rodgers

Andrea Rodgers has been in Washington for over a decade, and is well-known for giving back to the local community. She has co-founded three major fundraisers – Blondes vs. Brunettes in 2005, The Courage Cup where she serves as President in 2006, and Fashion for Paws in 2007. In September 2008, Andrea launched two businesses — AskMissA.com, and Socialite Marketing, a full-service boutique marketing firm that provides businesses and brands with social media, public relations, marketing, and event planning services.

She attended boarding school at Salem Academy, and graduated from Wake Forest University with a double major in Economics and Politics. Rodgers was recently hand picked by Vogue magazine to be a founding member of The Vogue 100, an organization “of influential decision makers and opinion leaders known for their distinctive taste in fashion and culture, [and who] personify the rising influence of women over the past several decades.”

Andrea first became involved in charitable work and event planning in the Washington area after 9/11 when she wanted to give back to the community. Through DC Cares, she started volunteering with Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and Washington Home & Hospice. Her past philanthropic work includes NSOvation which supports the National Symphony Orchestra, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Society Ties and Man & Woman of the Year campaign; Chair of the Steering Committee for the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s 1869 Society. As a graduate of Wake Forest University and Salem Academy, Andrea has served as President of Wake Forest’s DC Alumni Club and on Salem Academy’s Alumni Board.

In March 2006, Andrea and two other board members created The Courage Cup Corporation, which received 501(c) (3) nonprofit status. The Courage Cup was established to help at-risk urban youth by supporting programs in the mid-Atlantic region which give disadvantaged children individualized attention and a positive alternative activity to keep them in school and off the streets. Andrea took over as President and Chairman of The Courage Cup in September of 2006.

Wendy Pittman, Vice President

Wendy Pittman

Wendy Pittman is a businesswoman at heart whose drive to succeed began as early as her days growing up in Louisa, Virginia working as an assistant for her father’s recycling company.  In 1995, Wendy graduated from the University of Maryland and began her post-college career as a business development manager for united parcel service in small business accounts. From there Wendy has worked at a leading medical aesthetics company for the past 11 years, most of which as a senior business development manager.  Along the way she has earned numerous awards and recognition for her in sales and customer service.  Wendy attributes her career’s success to listening to her customers, understanding their needs and  implementing business plans to meet those needs.

In addition to being an accomplished businesswoman, Wendy is also a mother and launched a girls clothing brand, my bougie baby™ in early 2011.  She is now applying her years of business development, marketing and sales experience to the fashion industry. Wendy lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband, Eric and daughter Tiffani Rae.  She has a son, Christopher who is a  student at Howard University.  The Pittman family is very active in giving back working with local and national charities including Courage for Kids, The Washington Hospital transplant team and United Communities Against Poverty.

Stephanie Baucus, Chief Operations Officer & Chief Fiscal Officer

Stephanie Baucus

Stephanie Baucus received her B.A. in Political Science and Religious Studies from Emory University, where she graduated summa cum laude, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Following graduation, Ms. Baucus worked in private practice in Washington, DC, where she focused on criminal investigations and litigation, international civil litigation, corporate compliance planning and sanctions procedures. Ms. Baucus represented clients in matters involving criminal and civil fraud allegations, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other securities laws, international trade regulations, energy trading, insurance regulation, the mortgage industry, bankruptcy, antitrust law, transportation and aviation, and food and product safety.

In 2009, Ms. Baucus was appointed to serve as the associate Director of the Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison for the US Department of Justice. Her work at the Department focuses on working with state and local governments, other federal agencies, external constituency groups, and the public.

Lezlie Hiner, Director

Lezlie Hiner

Lezlie Hiner is the founder and director of Work to Ride, which was founded in 1994 as a 501c3 program that aids disadvantaged youth (male and female between the ages of 7 and 18) through constructive activities centered on horseback riding.

Work to Ride has received national recognition – including major coverage in HBO Sports, Sports Illustrated and on ESPN – for Lezlie’s success. She takes at-risk kids from inner city backgrounds, and exposes them to equestrian sports which they come to love in exchange for barn work and commitment to stay in school. Work to Ride received the United States Polo Association national “2005 Image Award”.

Charles Muldoon, Director

Professional polo player Charlie Muldoon is Director of Development at the historic Morven Park equestrian center in Leesburg and venue for The America’s Cup of Polo. Rated at 6 goals, he is also the highest ranked polo player living in the Washington, DC, metropolitan region. He has competed at the highest level of polo nationally and internationally: at the World Cup, the U.S. Open, the Geneva Open (Switzerland), the FIP World Championship (Chile) and the Camera de Deputados (A).

Charlie Muldoon

He also has won the 1999 20-goal Texas Open, and the 2001 26-goal U.S. Polo Association Gold Cup. In 2004 and 2005 the Muldoon farm in Poolesville, Maryland, hosted the start of The Courage Cup and Charlie played a major role helping with sponsorships and organizing the players for the polo games for those events. For four decades the Muldoon family has been a polo institution in the Washington area. Through the Potomac Polo Club and their “Gone Away Farm,” they have led the way in demonstrating how the sport of polo, once thought to be the preserve of the few, can be an accessible and popular sport for the Washington area community, and a very successful venue for charitable fund raising.