Green Inaugural Ball

The First Green Inaugural Ball was hosted on January 17, 2009 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium. Event Emissary, a DC-based event planning company spent three months planning the eco-friendly kick-off to Barack Obama’s Inaugural festivities.

The Green Ball featured special guests that included: Grammy Award-winner, Wyclef Jean; Margie Alt, Executive Director of Environment America; Graham Hill, Founder TreeHugger.com and VP of Planet Green Interactive; Summer Rayne Oakes, model, activist and on-air correspondent for Planet Green; Christiana Wyly, environmental entrepreneur; Hayden Leslie Panettiere, actress and singer, and Adrian Malik Fenty, mayor of the District of Columbia.