The King County Bar Foundation’s annual fundraising breakfast, Breakfast With Champions will feature NPR national political correspondent, Mara Liasson March 22, 2012 at the Westin Seattle hotel beginning at 7:30 a.m.

The Breakfast With Champions recognizes the work of individuals dedicated to justice and diversity. Funds raised at the Breakfast support pro bono legal services delivered to individuals in King County who are the neediest and least served – the homeless, immigrants, frail, abused, and disenfranchised. The Breakfast also recognizes that every member of our society, regardless of race or ethnicity, must have a stake in our legal system. Breakfast contributions also support KCBF’s Minority Law Student Scholarship program. KCBF is one of the largest providers of minority scholarships to law students in the state and is dedicated to expanding opportunities with the law for people of color.

Mara Liasson’s reports can be heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazine All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Liasson provides extensive coverage of politics and policy from Washington, D.C-focusing on the White House and Congress-and also reports on political trends beyond the Beltway.

Each election year, Liasson provides key coverage of the candidates and issues in both presidential and congressional races. During her tenure she has covered four presidential elections-in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004. Prior to her current assignment, Liasson was NPR's White House correspondent for all eight years of the Clinton administration. She has won the White House Correspondent Association's Merriman Smith Award for daily news coverage in 1994, 1995, and again in 1997. From 1989-1992 Liasson was NPR's congressional correspondent.

For more information about Mara Liasson please visit http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/mara-liasson.