Eugene Daniels, Break the Cycle Gala Master of Ceremonies 

Eugene Daniels is the White House Correspondent and Playbook Co-Author for POLITICO and an MSNBC Senior Contributor. Since joining POLITICO in 2018, he’s covered the midterms, the Democratic presidential primary and general election through print, video journalism and podcasts. Eugene will continue to leverage POLITICO’s many platforms as part of the Playbook team. During the country’s reckoning with race in 2020, Eugene moderated POLITICO’s Confronting Inequality Town Hall series that examined how inequities in policing, housing, healthcare, education and employment permeate and plague the United States.

Prior to POLITICO, Eugene covered the 2016 primary, general election and national politics as a political reporter at Newsy. He began his career in local television in Colorado Springs and graduated from Colorado State University in 2012.

Clark Construction, 2023 Corporate Champion

Each year, SOME honors a corporate partner who has centered addressing the region’s poverty and homelessness in all aspects of their business practices. 

Mark K. and Jeanne Shriver

Mark K. and Jeanne Shriver, 2023 Father Horace McKenna Humanitarians of the Year

SOME extends this award annually to individuals for their efforts to Break the Cycle of poverty and homelessness in their personal and professional work.

Jeanne Shriver

Jeanne Shriver is an award-winning children’s book author and dedicated leader in advocacy for children and education. Jeanne is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and began her career in financial services for Merrill Lynch and American Express. While raising her three children, she volunteered as a catechist teaching religious education, in children’s ministry at her parish, at the Christ Child Society of Washington, DC, and in her children’s schools. She was the co-creator of the first Catholic School Inclusive Education Program for the Archdiocese of Washington, DC to serve children with disabilities. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Victory Youth Center, has been an Associate Trustee for the Kennedy Foundation, and has spent the last 11 years as a Trustee on two independent school boards, one of which she currently chairs. A proud mom, Jeanne’s children’s book, Pairs of People, as well as her forthcoming alphabet book have been informed by her three children who are always there to help her create works that entertain and inspire.

Mark K. Shriver

Mark Shriver is President of Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School & Corporate Work Study Program, a high school serving young people in the Washington DC-area. Hailing from 60 zip codes, 85% of students qualify for free and reduced meals. Every student participates in a rigorous college-prep curriculum while working at local businesses once a week. 100% of graduates since the school’s inception in 2007 have been accepted to college.

In addition, Mark is Senior Advisor at Save the Children. Shriver joined Save the Children in 2003 and developed the agency’s domestic early childhood and school-age education programs, which today reach children in more than 200 underserved rural communities. He also created Save the Children’s domestic emergencies programs to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children before, during and after disaster strikes.

An advocate for children throughout his career, Shriver led a national coalition that convinced Congress to create the National Commission on Children and Disasters. He was appointed to the Commission by Senator Harry Reid of Nevada; he was elected chairperson by his fellow commissioners and served in that role for the life of the Commission (2008-2011).

In 2013, Shriver created Save the Children’s political advocacy arm, Save the Children Action Network (SCAN). SCAN seeks to build bipartisan solutions and generate voter support for policies that ensure that every child has an equal opportunity to succeed. With a grassroots network of 375,000 supporters across all 50 states, SCAN is working to ensure that every child in the U.S. has access to high-quality early childhood education, to protect migrant children arriving at the southern U.S. border and to promote girls’ empowerment around the world.

Shriver was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1994 to 2002. He was the first Chair of the Joint Committee on Children, Youth and Families, and was appointed Chair of the Children and Youth Subcommittee of Maryland's House Ways and Means Committee. He was repeatedly recognized as Outstanding Legislator of the Year by prominent advocacy and civic organizations.

In 1988, Shriver founded the innovative Choice Program, which serves delinquent and at-risk youth through intensive, community-based counseling. He subsequently created The Choice Jobs Program, Inc., which trains, places, and supports former Choice clients in jobs, as well as The Choice Middle Schools Program, a model for keeping at-risk middle school children in school.

Shriver received his B.A. from The College of the Holy Cross and a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University.

A bestselling author, his latest book, Pairs of People, was published in September 2022. He is also the author of 10 Hidden Heroes, Pilgrimage: My Search for the Real Pope Francis, and A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver.

Shriver lives with his wife, Jeanne, and their three children, Molly, Tommy, and Emma, in Maryland.