Andrea Mitchell, the chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News, will host the evening.
After attendees are treated to a "wine, cheese and carbo-loading" reception, politicians and media from both parties will bid on a host of hot-ticket beltway items.
Among the prizes up for grabs are four behind-the-plate tickets to a Boston Red Sox game, a weekend stay at the Kennedy Suite (the preserved senior dorm room of John F. Kennedy '40 in Winthrop House), and two tickets to the Lincoln Center premier of HBO's "Sex in the City."
While this year's planning and team members came solely from the Kennedy School, Calman said that she would like to involve other Harvard students in the efforts for next year's Marathon.
"We'd love next year to have undergraduates on board, especially those who want to change the world, or at least a little piece of it," Calman said.