A former lawyer at a prominent D.C. firm, Hilde Kahn is president of her condominium board and has served on several other community and education boards. Her first novel, Head of School, was published in 2021. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Bethesda, Maryland, she currently lives with her husband in Tysons, Virginia. She has three grown children, two of whom work in AI. Her mother lives at Maplewood Park Place in Bethesda. (photo courtesy Elizabeth Kreutz; all royalties to be donated to the Alzheimer's Association.)