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DISTRICTLINE Access Denied

A pregnant homeless woman was turned away after requesting emergency shelter.

Advocates say the Bowser administration’s strict regulations are to blame.

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Shadon Freeman and her daughter

By Mitch Ryals As the temperAture dropped toward freezing on November 13, 30-year-old Shadon Freeman stood outside the Virginia Williams Family Resource Center with her sleeping 1-year-old daughter in her arms.

Freeman, who was nine months pregnant at the time and had her baby on Monday, was looking for emergency shelter after she overstayed her welcome at a friend’s house on D Street SE. She says she spent her last $10 on a ride to the Virginia Williams Center and waited for several hours only to be turned out into the cold night.

Freeman was born in the District and had with her multiple pieces of documentation that show her ties to the District: a copy of her birth certificate and of her DC Medicaid

card, for example. The reason she was denied shelter, Freeman says, according to the intake worker at the Virginia Williams Center, is that she lived in Maryland more than a year ago.

District residency has been a strict requirement for homeless services under Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration.

The Council tightened the laws around access to the District’s shelters and homeless services at the end of 2017. Earlier this year, Bowser’s Department of Human Services proposed emergency regulations interpreting the new law, which advocates call “incredibly onerous” and say reverses much of the Council’s intent.

Freeman’s case is an example of how DHS’ proposed regulations can exclude the very people the Council meant to protect, says Amber Harding, an attorney with the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless who is rep-

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resenting Freeman.

“In this scheme DHS is proposing, their own agency can find someone a resident for the purposes of Medicaid, and then turn around and determine they’re not a resident for the purposes of family shelter,” Harding says.

While FreemAn WAs still pregnant with her now-1-year-old daughter, she says she moved from a family friend’s home in Maryland back to the District. Her friend was chronically ill and could no longer afford to help her.

He died in January, she says.

Last Wednesday, Freeman listed the former Maryland address on her application at Virginia Williams but she doesn’t live there anymore, she says.

Freeman says she gave the intake worker a photocopy of her ID, Social Security card, DC

Medicaid card, and her birth certificate showing that she was born in the District.

“They was tellin’ me that I needed to bring proof that I no longer reside in Maryland, but he’s dead now, you know?” she says of her friend. “I don’t have no way to bring y’all proof that I don’t live there anymore.”

Freeman says the intake worker was rude and impatient, telling her, “we don’t have to care because we don’t benefit from this. Y’all need this,” and “I’m gonna go home.”

Instead of helping her find a place to stay, the intake worker gave her a print-out listing homeless services in Maryland and a sticky note with the number for the Maryland shelter hotline. Two armed guards escorted her to the door, she says.

By then, it was about 7 p.m., Freeman recalls. She stood outside holding her daughter for what seemed like hours. Eventually, an employee at the juvenile probation office next door to the Virginia Williams Center offered to help.

Freeman says the good Samaritan bought her food and water from Carolina Kitchen across the street and gave her money for a cab to Howard University Hospital. She spent the night in the emergency room waiting area.

Freeman talked to City Paper from the bed in a motel room on New York Avenue NE where DHS finally placed her after Harding got involved in her case. (D.C. uses motel rooms as emergency shelter. The city is building additional facilities that will replace the notorious DC General shelter Bowser shuttered last year.)

PAW Patrol plays on the TV while Freeman’s daughter crawls around, her tiny hands orange with Cheetos dust from the snack she had earlier. If not for the kindness of a random stranger, Freeman says she would have spent the night outside.

An employee at the Virginia Williams Center directed City Paper to DHS spokesperson Dora Taylor-Lowe, who declined to comment on Freeman’s case, citing privacy concerns.

But in an email to Harding, which Freeman allowed her to share with City Paper, DHS gives a conflicting narrative of what transpired at the Virginia Williams Center last week. The email states that Freeman “did not complete the eligibility process” and indicated that she was a Maryland resident. “When the eligibility work-

er attempted to provide her with appropriate services, Ms. Freeman abruptly exited the building without receiving services,” the email says.

Noah Abraham, a deputy administrator who oversees DHS’ homeless services for families, says generally if the agency cannot immediately verify that a family is in emergency need of shelter, they will place them on an interim basis. If DHS believes a family resides in another jurisdiction, Abraham says, the agency will help the family find services outside of D.C. “She’s literally the person this law was supposed to be protecting, and it’s being used to screen her out,” Harding says. “Not to mention the pure humanity of putting her out in the cold when she’s having a baby and had a baby in her arms, and they knew she had nowhere to go.”

In 2016, Bowser frustrated housing and homeless advocates, including Harding, and some councilmembers with a proposal to tighten eligibility requirements for shelter in the District.

D.C. is one of the few jurisdictions in the country with a right to shelter law and already required residency to gain access to a shelter.

But Bowser’s bill, introduced in September 2016, would have demanded two documents as proof of residency, as well as “clear and convincing evidence” that a person does not have a safe housing alternative.

“District residents experiencing homelessness should be at the front of the line to receive help,” Bowser tweeted in November 2016 after she asked the Council to act quickly on her bill. “The legislation I introduced ensures that all District resources go to help District residents. District taxpayers should not be put in the position of providing services for the entire region when there is so much need here.”

Bowser warned of overcrowded shelters, and the Department of Human Services released data showing about 12 percent of people seeking family shelter were not District residents. The District spent $80,000 a night to house homeless families in motels, DHS claimed, because the shelters were full.

“We’re not trying to put people out on the street,” DHS Director Laura Zeilinger said at the time, according to the Washington Post.

Bowser introduced a different, more detailed bill in May 2017—the Homeless Services Reform Amendment Act—but by emphasizing a line between residents and non-residents, the mayor sparked a debate about the definition of residency and its relevance to helping people who have no home.

It also reminds some of a national debate around the country’s southern border.

“Focusing everyone’s attention on a fake problem of people flooding our borders to take resources from D.C. residents is not the right approach,” Harding says. “I think it is motivated by similar catering to fears of outsiders instead of actually focusing on solving the problems of people who need your help. Just like the reason that people in West Virginia are struggling to find jobs is not the result of illegal immigration, people struggling to find housing has nothing

to do with Maryland residents taking their shelter resources away.”

The Council passed Bowser’s bill at the end of 2017 with several changes. The law lists specific documents a person can use as proof of District residency but only requires one, as opposed to Bower’s proposal of two. The bill also restored individuals’ and families’ rights to appeal after they’re removed from a housing program that Bowser’s bill left out.

In September of this year, DHS published its proposed regulations further interpreting the law, which are currently in effect on an emergency basis.

The Washington Legal Clinic, along with five other legal and advocacy organizations, signed a letter suggesting the regulations stem from the agency’s “unsupported belief that families are prone to lying or ‘gaming the system’ in order to get into shelter.”

Abraham says that’s an unfair assessment.

“We serve dozens of families each month, and when families come and access services, we have a legal responsibility to do our due diligence and prioritize services for District residents,” Abraham says. “But if on the other side, you see cases that don’t work, that’s your only reality. But that’s not always the case.”

The proposed regulations specify several pieces of information DHS can use to disprove a person’s District residency and allow just one piece of evidence to overshadow multiple documents supporting residency, the advocates’ letter argues.

They also don’t allow DHS to consider a person’s own statement as “credible evidence” that they don’t have safe housing, a rule Kathy Zeisel, an attorney with Children’s Law Center, takes issue with.

“The Council debated on the dais what credible evidence was going to be and whether it needed to be an oral or written statement,” Zeisel says. “No one imagined that it would be neither.”

Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, who shepherded the bill through the Council, declined to comment on the proposed regulations, but says she is reviewing advocates’ concerns and plans to meet with DHS to discuss them.

“They are emergency regs right now, so we’re working toward ensuring the final regs are sent down soon and that they reflect the legislative intent,” Nadeau writes in an email.

Abraham and his team are reviewing public comments on the regulations and will be making some adjustments, he says. He could not provide a firm timeline for the revisions.

What Harding believes is a conflict between the law and DHS’ proposed regulations—that a connection to another jurisdiction can trump a person’s ties to the District—creates a potential constitutional problem around the right to travel.

“In cases like Ms. Freeman’s, the harm already happened,” she says. “So we’re exploring how to tackle these in systemic ways, but right now unless the Council steps in and overrides the regulations, we’re stuck in hypothermia season with a system that is not going to protect families from freezing this winter. It’s going to err on the side of bureaucracy, not on their safety.”

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DISTRICTLINE Record Lows

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Tens of thousands of Washingtonians have criminal records getting in the way of jobs and housing, and many of them never even committed a crime.

By Joshua Kaplan On a bitterly cold Saturday morning in November, Denitra stood outside of the Brentwood Recreation Center, eating toast.

She was feeling hopeful. A small crowd had gathered on the sidewalk in front of the center on 14th Street NE, waiting for the doors to open. Meanwhile, the legal services nonprofit Rising for Justice was setting up inside. In half an hour, the rec center would transform into a makeshift “expungement clinic,” as dozens of lawyers and law students spent the day poring over paperwork, trying to help people navigate the labyrinthine process of sealing a criminal record in D.C. And if everything went as she hoped, Denitra would finally be able to move on from what happened in 2012.

Seven-and-a-half years ago, Denitra was in a bad situation. She was using more drugs than she wanted to be using, and one day, she was out shopping with a friend

when her friend decided to pocket a couple things without paying for them. Then, as the pair was leaving the store, a security guard stopped them—and her friend booked it, leaving Denitra behind to deal with the now-furious guard. “We exchanged words,” she remembers. “I probably cursed him out.

Then he arrested me, and said I assaulted him.” When she heard the charge, her heart sank: She was being prosecuted for assault on a police officer.

She swears she never touched the man.

“But I didn’t have money,” she says. “I couldn’t fight it.” And so, Denitra made a decision she’s regretted ever since. When the prosecution offered her a plea deal—no jail time, just a few months probation—she took it, and pled guilty.

Probation was relatively easy for her. The problem was what came after it. “That was my only charge,” she explains, “and I haven’t gotten into any trouble since.” However, that

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hasn’t stopped prospective employers from throwing her applications in the wastebasket. Ever since 2012, she’s been stuck doing temp work. “When [employers] see what happened, they don’t believe me,” Denitra emphasizes. “They just look at the charge.

And assault on a police officer looks terrible.”

Standing outside the Recreation Center, she explained that if she manages to get her record sealed, she hopes she’ll be able to finally get full-time work again—ideally at one of the hotels where she used to man the phones as an operator. “I don’t do drugs anymore,” she says. “I’ve changed my life around. I just want a chance. Just a chance.”

She didn’t get one. “a criminal recOrd is a modern-day scarlet letter,” says Gwendolyn Washington, a former public defender and director of pro bono at Rising for Justice. “It can be devastating in an economy where jobs are tight.

Where affordable housing is tight.”

Criminal records include convictions and non-convictions alike: So even if a jury found someone innocent, their record can prevent them from getting work, and keep them out of good housing. It can damage people’s credit scores; it can prevent them from chaperoning their children’s field trips. Washington says she once worked with an elderly Vietnam veteran who came home with PTSD and an addiction problem, accruing a couple drug convictions because of it. “He couldn’t get into a nursing home. They didn’t want him because of his criminal convictions,” she explains. Unable to get proper housing, he died in a homeless shelter.

“We’re one of the only countries that continues to punish people long after they’ve served their sentence,” says Rafi Crockett, the D.C. organizer for National Expungement Week 2019. “Our society wants to punish people, and wants to punish them in perpetuity.”

Even in America, though, D.C. is something of an outlier. The District is home to tens of thousands of people who have a criminal record out there for anyone to see, and it has one of the most restrictive record-sealing processes in the country. In 2017, an Urban Institute study found that roughly one in seven Washingtonians has a publicly available criminal record from the past 10 years.

And while all of those people could have trouble finding work because of their record, they weren’t all guilty: Only half had been convicted of a crime.

The burden of this criminal record system falls primarily on people of color. According to the DC Sentencing Commission, last year, 96 percent of people sentenced in D.C. were black. “It’s a system that, over the last several decades, has disproportionately impacted communities of color,” says Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie. “Over one in three African American adults have a criminal record. It’s something that legislators across the country have to reckon with.”

McDuffie is one of several Councilmembers currently working to overhaul the city’s record-sealing process. When it comes to criminal justice reform, he says, “the reality is this is where the rubber meets the road.

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DISTRICTLINE have more progressive statutes than D.C. Compared to other jurisdictions, D.C. stands out both for the complexity of its process, and for the relatively narrow range of records its deems eligible for sealing.

What makes the District most anomalous, though, is how it treats people who were never convicted at all. “Even in cases where the police made a mistake, and realize that at the station house and let you go, that’s not sealed and it can’t be for two years,” Washington explains. “And people lose their jobs for that.”

When it comes to sealing non-convictions, “the clear trend ... is what’s happening in New York, Colorado, South Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, a number of other states,” says Margaret Love, CCRC’s executive director.

“If you’re acquitted or your charges are dismissed, you get relief right there in the courtroom at the conclusion of the case. New York has been doing it like this for decades.”

By contrast, in D.C., if someone’s arrested but not convicted, they have to wait at least two to four years (depending on what the crime was); and if that’s not the only arrest they ever had, two years can easily become 10.

Strangest of all, once someone’s eligible, they have to go through the exact same laborious process they’d go through if they had been convicted, working to convince a judge that they deserve to have their record sealed.

Love’s group has researched non-conviction statutes in all 50 states, and she says D.C. is the only place that treats non-convictions just like convictions. “That just seems utterly unfair to me,” she says.

As a result, people’s lives can be completely upended by charges that everyone—even the prosecution—agrees they absolutely did not do.

About 15 years ago, Nicole was assaulted in her home by a roommate high on PCP. Then, the roommate turned to Nicole’s girlfriend, grabbed the grill off their stove, and hit her girlfriend over the head with it. Terrified, bleeding out of her face, Nicole’s partner took a kitchen knife and stabbed him.

The police showed up and arrested “everyone in the house”—charging them all with assault with intent to kill.

Of course, they later dropped Nicole’s charges. But the damage was done. More than a decade later, the arrest still regularly gets her turned down from jobs. “When you look at my record, guess what you see?” she explains. “Assault with intent to kill... Employers are like, ‘She did what?’”

Multiple people City Paper spoke with—including Nicole—had looked into sealing their record before, but either didn’t pursue it because an attorney was asking for thousands of dollars, or did pursue it without a lawyer and were ultimately rejected. “I tell my clients, this is not like other places where you go in and come back five minutes later and you’re

squeaky clean,” Washington says.

When attempting to seal a record, the first step is determining whether that record is eligible. For example, if someone was convicted of a less serious misdemeanor, they become eligible to seal it eight years after they complete their sentence. But then it gets more complicated: Every time someone is arrested, it affects the eligibility of all their other records, in a maze of complex statutes.

Then, if someone is eligible, they must gather up all of their records before they can proceed. There’s no central repository, so this means asking Superior Court, the police department, and so on. “A lot of our clients don’t remember all their records because we’re talking about 15 years ago, and maybe you got arrested four times that year because you matched a description,” says Sterling Howard, director of development and communications at Rising for Justice.

“Half the time, you’re being criminalized for being black.”

someone’s eligible for sealing, and they have an experienced attorney—the entire burdensome process is little more than a formality.

So long as someone is eligible, Rising for Justice estimates their clients are successful 98 to 99 percent of the time. “I think that underscores the need for automatic and robust expungement laws,” Howard says. “If 99 percent of people are successful, it should be automatic.”

As stAtes updAte their record sealing statutes, the status quo is shifting in an additional way. “Background checks go back forever now, and they didn’t always do that,” Sheppard says. “So these far-reaching background checks affect job-seekers who might be far into their careers. Who didn’t have to deal with this before.”

One woman City Paper spoke to had a single conviction that’s been causing her strife: Back in 1989, she says, “an officer asked me where he could buy drugs, and I pointed and

“Even in cases where the police made a mistake, and realize that at the station house and let you go, that’s not sealed and it can’t be for two years. And people lose their jobs for that.”

“It is difficult and sometimes costly to get all of the records you need,” explains Maya Sheppard, supervising attorney at the Neighborhood Legal Services Program.

“Which keeps a lot of people from doing it.”

If someone manages to get all their records, they then file a motion with the court, trying to convince a judge they’ve changed since they were arrested and deserve a second chance. Attorneys tell City Paper that once a motion is filed, the process takes six months at minimum, and can last over a year. “There are many places [motions] can fail just on a technicality,” Sheppard explains, such as “if you didn’t include all the records you need to include.” Multiple lawyers tell City Paper they’ve had motions fail simply because when their client asked the Metropolitan Police Department for all their records, the police made a mistake—leaving out a record or two, thereby spelling doom for the case.

“It’s a huge logic puzzle,” Washington says.

Even with a lawyer, she explains, the process is extremely cumbersome. And without one?

“It’s impossible.”

That said, if all the pieces are in place—if

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said, ‘Over there.’” Police didn’t find any money or drugs on her—she says she had absolutely no connection to the dealers—but she was convicted of felony distribution of cocaine, and served seven-and-a-half years in prison.

She’s completely rebuilt her life in the past 30 years, and has worked the same, steady job since 2011. This year, though, she made a decision that could put all that progress in jeopardy: She asked for a promotion. “I applied to change positions within the company, and they did a background check,” she explains. “And now they want to adverse the hiring. Meaning they want to unhire me.” She started trying to get her record sealed, hoping to save her job. However, she isn’t eligible.

Unlike Mississippi, only one felony in D.C.— failure to appear in court—is ever eligible for sealing. So, under the current law, her conviction will be around forever.

(Some protections exist in D.C. for people with these sorts of records. In 2014, the D.C. Council passed a “Ban the Box” law that prohibits many employers from asking about or looking at applicants’ criminal histories until they give them a conditional offer. Never-

theless, multiple employment attorneys tell City Paper this doesn’t eliminate the problem: There are massive employers it doesn’t apply to, and besides, plenty of businesses don’t follow the law.)

In D.C. today, four bills under Council review could drastically reduce the number of years someone must wait before they can seal a record, and increase the number of felonies that are eligible. (As written, none of them would make crimes like murder eligible for sealing). At-Large Councilmember David Grosso introduced a comprehensive reform bill in January—it’s been widely supported, with seven other Councilmembers (McDuffie, Trayon White, Robert White, Charles Allen, Anita Bonds, Vince Gray, and Brianne Nadeau) either co-introducing or co-sponsoring. That same month, Mayor Muriel Bowser introduced a bill of her own.

Trayon White and Vince Gray added a third bill in March, then in July, McDuffie introduced bill number four.

Grosso and McDuffie’s bills are the most expansive, reducing the time before someone’s eligible, increasing the number of eligible felonies, and making it so that eventually, both non-convictions and some convictions get sealed automatically. “It just seems like a no-brainer that if you were arrested and weren’t convicted, that shouldn’t follow you around for the rest of your life,” Grosso says.

Three of the bills—all except for McDuffie’s—were already introduced in 2017, although they didn’t get past an initial hearing then. However, Councilmember Allen, chair of the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, says he cares deeply about these reforms, which he also sees as critical for reducing recidivism. “It’s a massive undertaking …

We’ve been working on it for the past year,” he says. “We’re going to take the time to get it right. But it’s at the front of our agenda.”

If the Council passes some version of these reforms, it could open doors for tens of thousands of District residents. “Many of the people that call me are despondent,” Washington emphasizes. “It’s been 10 years. They’ve been in [addiction] treatment. They’ve completed programs. And they can’t get a job because they have a conviction on their record …

There should be a way back into society. People deserve a second chance.”

Right now, that can be hard to come by.

After three hours at the expungement clinic, Denitra left with bad news. “I was hoping this would help, but they told me they couldn’t do anything for me until 2022,” she explains. “I thought it’d been seven-and-a-half years, so I was good.”

“That’s why a lot of people do bad stuff,” she thinks. “Because you can’t get a job, and you have to put food on the table.”

As for her own case, “I guess I’ll just have to wait,” she says, “and hope for a job that doesn’t look at it.”

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Every year when the City Paper staff comes together to plan The People Issue, we start by talking about themes we’ve seen emerge in the District over the course of the year. This year yielded some obvious topics—displacement, food and health inequalities, violence and homicides. We also felt a desire to celebrate the good things we observed—the books we read, things that made us laugh, or moments that made us feel optimistic about the future.

The 19 people you’ll find in the following pages reflect those themes. They’re teachers and students, advocates who uplift and workers who make changes in our neighborhoods and affect the way we see the world, politicians, doctors, and artists. First and foremost, they’re enthusiastic residents of the region.

Take some time to read their words and examine their faces, captured in color by our longtime staff photographer, Darrow Montgomery. We hope you’ll enjoy getting to know them as much as we did. —Caroline Jones Interviews have been edited and condensed.

GABRIELA OROZCO THE POET

Sixteen-year-old Gabriela Orozco is a twin, a first-generation American high school student, and one of the fiercest poets you’ll ever read. Local arts education nonprofit Words Beats & Life named her this year’s youth poet laureate, and a professor once described her poetry as “slam-style Emily Dickinson.”

—Kayla Randall When did you start writing poetry?

My mom would tell you when I was 8, because I went to a Spanish immersion school and we were learning about poetry in Spanish. I was in a yellow dress, went up on a stage and presented my poem about a rainbow—“Arco Iris.” I compared each color of the rainbow to something else. With poetry, the first actual time I did it was in an eighth grade writing class. It was a creative writing class, and I’d always felt like a good writer. I just felt to be a good writer, you have to be a good reader. And I consider myself a good reader because I read and therefore I write.

What do you like to read?

I really like to read historical fiction. There was a time when I was obsessed with a very niche genre of historical fiction that was specifically based on World War II and had female perspectives. I actually managed to find a surprising number of books about that. I also like fantasy, and I’m trying to move into nonfiction. I like fiction, mostly. I had to read Moby-Dick for school last year, and I didn’t like all of it but most of it I really enjoyed reading. So, we were reading Moby-Dick and I had the idea that I would write a poem about it. The bones of whales were used to make corsets for women in Nantucket because a lot of New England’s economy was based off whaling. Whale body parts were 10 november 22, 2019 washingtoncitypaper.com

What do you have to say through your art as an actor?

I really like seeing and recognizing theater as a catalyst for change. There’s a lot we can say about the climate we’re living in as Americans right now but what I will say is a lot of great art is coming out of that. People are at a place now where they feel like they have a voice. This is the time to use it. My job is not to entertain, my job is to enlighten, my job is to challenge. I want to challenge the way we see black men in the world. I want to challenge the way we view black people.

I want to change the amount of agency that actors of color have to be themselves fully in the room, to not feel the need to water themselves down.

used for every single thing. The bones were used to make corsets, and I thought that was really interesting because you’re taking bones and you’re literally putting them on your bones. I was thinking, “Wait, this is a really cool metaphor,” because the whale has to be dead—the free thing has to be dead, that’s necessary to chain the woman. [The poem] is about trying to suppress freedom.

What’s it like being a performing poet and a student?

Being D.C. poet laureate, I’m both representing the city and poetry as an art form. But I’m also a 16-year-old high school student and I remember someone told me once when I was performing that I was like a completely different person—but I just feel like I’m the same person. I’m a very outspoken person, I’m always raising my hands in classes if I know the answer or if I don’t know the answer. In Socratic seminars or class discussions, I’m always debating and being like “What about this? What about that?” I feel like that curiosity and that idea of not being afraid to say what you have to say very much propels me and drives my willingness to perform.

How does your upbringing and identity play into your work?

Being Latina and being Jewish aren’t mutually exclusive. My mother, being a Jewish South African woman, and my father being Latino from Nicaragua, and both of them being academics and studying history and politics, that is a core foundation of my identity. I’m also a D.C. kid.

My parents, because they study political systems—my dad studies Latin American policy and my mom studies criminology—I think that having a background in understanding the way society and the world works is really helpful with my poetry. My favorite subject is history, and I like to dream of other worlds with poetry. A lot of the popular poetry right now is very political, and I feel like that’s a good starting point. Having knowledge grounds me and gives me a foundation, not even to say a poetic foundation, just knowing things makes me feel like I’m a better writer.

My writing is about me. It’s about how I feel. Every teenager writes in their journal and has bad love poems, right? But it’s more than that. I write about how I deal with society. I write about identity and not wanting to be boxed in. The many different facets of my identity, each one of them I’m exploring in their own way. I write about the isolation of being so vulnerably vocal, and also being passionate. I write about passion, like my passion for reading, my passion for books.

Do you plan on staying in D.C. after high school?

I don’t know; I don’t know about college yet.

If I work hard, if I keep my grades up, and if I do well on the SAT, I think I can do anything.

The problem is, there are so many possible places and ideas and people to become and roles to fill. Do I want to be a rabbi or a writer or a historian? Do I want to be an academic?

For you, what’s the balance between wanting to focus on art but also having your identity wrapped up in it?

I believe my art is my activism. I’m very particular about what I do, when I do it, where I do it. I’m very aware of the body politic, the body politic is very important in my work. What I mean by that is, the politics that come with being in a black body, being in a black male body. When people see me, they have stuff that they put on that, and that has nothing to do with me, but I have to be very aware of that when I say, “Yes, I’m going to do this play here at this theater.” It’s important to me to always be pushing a boundary or challenging a perception that one may have when looking at me and coming to see a story. It’s always my goal to show the full humanity of a character as much as I can—every emotion one can feel.

As complicated as we are as humans is how complicated these characters are, and I want that to be shown in my work. It’s important for that to be seen. It’s important for other black people to see themselves in their complexities onstage. We’re not monolithic. And it’s not always clean cut. It’s important for white people to see me in a white space—as uncomfortable as it may make them—being fully human.

I want to be all these things. I want to be an academic writer rabbi poet.

JUSTIN WEAKS

THE STORYTELLER D.C. theater audiences love Justin Weaks.

The talented actor was a standout in this year’s productions of BLKS at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, where he made audiences quake with laughter, and Fences at Ford’s Theatre, where he broke hearts. A North Carolina native, Weaks came to D.C. for a job about four years ago, not expecting to stay. But he kept getting cast in shows, and lucky for local theatergoers, he’s still here.

—Kayla Randall How did you end up embedded in the D.C. theater scene?

It was a play called Dontrell, Who Kissed

the Sea; it was at Theater Alliance in Anacostia. That play really kind of opened me up to seeing what D.C. was about as far as putting people of color onstage and telling our stories. I kept coming back. I did two more shows here before I decided to move here. I haven’t expected to be here this long. I didn’t think that working the way I’ve been working was possible, and it’s really become a home for me as an artist. D.C. will always be a theater home for me.

Did you always want to be a theater actor?

Since I knew I wanted to be an actor, yeah.

There’s something about the immediacy of being in a theater, there’s something about being close to the audience and having that energy exchange that is exciting as a performer. It’s exciting to feed off that energy and to feel the change, to feel the tension, to feel the joy and the conversation between actor and audience. I live for that.

COLBY KING

THE CHRONICLER Colbert I. “Colby” King is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post. Depending on the news and his level of outrage or respect, he writes about local, national, and international issues. But at 80 years old, and nearly three decades on the Post editorial page, the last 20 as a columnist, it is his years of focus on his hometown D.C. that make him a must-read every Saturday. A native Washingtonian, graduate of Dunbar High and Howard University, King worked as a Hill staff member on the District’s 1973 Home Rule Charter. He later was a Treasury and World Bank official and a Riggs Bank executive for Middle East and Africa affairs before joining the Post in 1990. —Tom Sherwood Why a column on Saturday, the least read newspaper of the week?

Meg Greenfield [a legendary Post editori-

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al page editor] said I should write a column.

We had tea at her house [to discuss it]. We laughed at it later because that was the last time we ever had tea together. I said, “Meg, let’s do it this way. I’ll write something for Saturday papers. And if the column bombs, nobody will know it.”

Who do you see as your column audience?

It’s a mythical person I have in mind. This individual, sitting at home, the kids are gone off to school. What do I think they ought to know? It’s driven by gut.

Your column can elicit praise ... or [readers] can rip you to shreds.

You like to think you get inoculated from this stuff after years of it. Every now and then somebody can really sting you, but hell, I’ve been getting these blowbacks for a couple of decades now. When you’re really going to take off on somebody, I imagine that evening sitting across from that person at the dinner table. And that’s when you realize, oops, maybe I ought to temper this thing a little bit.

How do you go about writing the column?

Sometimes it’s a struggle. Come Monday, I

have to toss it around in my mind: Where am I going on this thing? Wednesday I usually sit down and take a crack at a column. I never file the same day. I make it a point of doing as much as I can on Wednesday, take a break sharply at 5 o’clock for my drink. [Ed. note: He wouldn’t reveal what it is.] The next morning I take a look at it, play with it some more, and then file it by noon.

Retire or what’s next?

This is something I’m debating. Is this the last time? There’s a book there somewhere that needs to be pulled together. I can’t keep putting it off. I need to find the time to turn my attention to it. I’m probably at a point of decision, I just don’t know that I am ready to make it.

JAMILLA OKUBO

THE RESIDENT ARTIST Jamilla Okubo’s art can be seen everywhere from Dior bags to O, The Oprah Magazine to The LINE DC hotel. The 26-year-old mixedmedia artist, illustrator, and print pattern designer is D.C. born and bred and draws inspiration from both the city and her American,

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Kenyan, and Trinidadian heritage. Her work is bold and colorful, and prominently features black women figures. Okubo’s creations tell stories, and with her art, she’s putting her own story on a platform. —Kayla Randall How did you get into art?

I give all thanks to my mom. She always told me that she noticed I had an eye for art and drawing. I also was blessed with having a really good art teacher in elementary school.

That’s what really opened my eyes to how passionate I was about art. That’s honestly all I cared about, that was my favorite class.

My mom had me signed up for different art programs, like art summer camps. Anything art-related, she had me involved in. She also was a photographer and went to American University for photography. I would always go with her to class when I was in elementary school, and help her with her projects and be in the dark room with her when she was developing her photographs. She really had me immersed in the arts.

How would you describe your art and what it means to you?

I would describe my work as a reflection of my

experiences being a black woman and what it is that I really appreciate about our culture, and about just being black, and also wanting to archive the moments that I experience. I think about what my work will look like in 50 to 75 years. Who in the future will see my work and question what I was talking about? It’s like creating memories. For example, since I’ve moved back to D.C. after graduating from Parsons [School of Design], it’s completely different from when I left D.C.: adjusting to the changes, adjusting to gentrification, and people moving and changing the dynamic of the city and its cultural history.

Being a D.C. native, what is the D.C. of your upbringing compared to now?

I grew up in Northwest, in the Petworth area.

Communities change over time. Growing up, a lot of the areas were predominantly black, so it’s really interesting to see how transplants integrate with D.C. natives. I see some friction in certain areas because I feel like certain transplants don’t know how to move in a space and be respectful of the people and the communities that have already been here, but also contribute and come together with D.C. natives. In certain spaces, it can feel very

standoffish, where it’s like these transplants have come into the city and created their own communities and aren’t thinking about D.C. natives, or specifically low-income black people in certain areas that have been gentrified.

And you’re conscious of the city’s gentrification and transformation when you’re making your art?

In my head, it’s like in a few years, the culture and community that I knew in D.C. growing up won’t be here—or there’ll be very little left of us. I want to be able to archive the last bit of memories and things we have contributed to this city before it’s completely wiped out.

What brought you back to D.C. from New York after you graduated Parsons?

I loved New York, but I was really burned out, honestly. I needed to come back home and regroup. I was also a bit homesick, and I really liked how the arts community has been thriving since I’ve been gone. To be a part of what’s happening in D.C., and the change in the arts scene is really cool. I think because D.C. is known as Chocolate City, there is a space and a need and a want for black artists to create representative art of that culture.

RUQUAN BROWN

in for a rough future. We should be making choices that are going to better the people that are behind us.

Do you prefer offense or defense?

I have no preference. I just want to be on a great team and win games and championships.

Benjamin Banneker Academic High School will move to a new, bigger space in time for the 2021-2022 school year. The Council voted 7-6 to approve the funds after a heated debate, and the final nudge came from people who can’t even vote.

Ahead of the Council’s final approval of the city’s budget, Banneker students flooded the Wilson Building to make their case for an overdue upgrade that at least some of them won’t even get to see. One of the students leading the charge was 17-year-old senior RuQuan Brown, a standout football player, student government president, and entrepreneur.

—Mitch Ryals

What’s the most important thing you learned?

How important it is to vote now. These are the people who make the decisions in our ever-so-changing city, so take it upon yourselves, and take advantage of that. You have the power now to determine who is making your decisions.

You have quite a few offers to play college ball.

Yeah, 24.

THE ALL-AMERICAN

You were part of the group who advocated for a new school. Tell me about that experience.

We were juniors at the time. A lot of us were iffy about advocating for a building that we would never experience. I also took the opportunity to express that if we make choices based on only what’s gonna benefit us, we’re

Football is a major part of your life, when did you start playing?

Around 7 years old. I always knew I wanted to play ball. My step-dad just taught me the game.

And you play on both sides of the ball for Roosevelt? (Banneker doesn’t have a football team.)

Yep, so I play corner and safety on defense and receiver on offense. I really play everything on offense. I play a little bit of quarterback, little bit of running back, but my primary positions would be receiver and corner.

Do you know where you’ll go next year?

I have an idea. I think I’m more so looking for an experience that’s going to teach and educate me, and to take a degree from there that’s gonna have credit and hold weight in the world. I don’t care how hard it is. I’d actually probably prefer if it weren’t so hard.

I do plan to play in the NFL. I don’t know how that might change in the future, but I’ll focus on finishing senior year and then finishing college football. I know my talent and my dedication will take me there.

You’re also involved in anti-gun violence advocacy through a clothing line you started, Love1, and you’ve promised to donate some of the profits to a gun buyback organization.

It’s a nod to my teammate who was murdered in September 2017 and will never be forgot-

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ten as long as these stickers or T-shirts or whatever are here. He wore number 1.

I started it January 30, 2019. That’s my stepdad’s birthday. He was murdered three months before, on Oct. 26. He really taught me a lot more than I realized. How to treat a woman. How not to treat a woman. [His name is] Arnelius Howell.

Love to me is extremely important because it comes in so many different forms.

You can show love by listening to someone.

You can show love by being polite to someone. You can show love by taking time and energy out of your day. And you can show love in other fashions, like affection and giftgiving and things of that nature, but it can be also a lot more miniscule.

But it’s about something our community lacks. The communities where gun violence is so prevalent, what they lack is love. Sometimes we don’t feel love. Or there’s no love for the other person. Or I made a decision out of hate instead of love.

That’s only a very limited scope of some of the things that trigger the decisions to take people’s lives with guns. So it’s about using love to encourage people to make wiser decisions. It’s about using love to form unity to end gun violence.

to find out the level of commitment.

And I was very pleasantly surprised— not surprised, but glad to hear that Ted and Sheila wanted this thing to work. I think they were taking hits from the fans as if they didn’t care, and I think they cared, but were looking for a solution. And so, you know, I didn’t make any promises other than they would never be embarrassed by how hard the team played, or the ener-

we had them, where we struggled with injuries.

We were fortunate enough in the lottery to get the second pick. So then now we had pieces to go get something done. If we had not had that piece of the second pick, we would’ve never been able to get the Elena Delle Donne trade done, I don’t think. And you have to get several great players to win a championship. It’s hard to do it around one player. Any coach that thinks they’re going

RAYCEEN PENDARVIS

THE FREEDOM FIGHTER Rayceen Pendarvis is on a mission to free people. The MC and host of the monthly Ask Rayceen Show works constantly to build community, whether that’s through activism, counseling, or a brief stint as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner. Pendarvis, a lifelong Washingtonian and graduate of DC Public Schools, currently lives in a Brentwood home that’s been in the family for generations.

—Caroline Jones How have you seen D.C. change?

Growth is a good thing. It’s a wonderful thing to see. But then there’s a downside. Gentrification is a horrible thing, it destroys neighborhoods. We’re losing culture where gentrification comes in. We lose the richness that makes community.

MIKE THIBAULT THE COACH

Mike Thibault didn’t plan to be a professional basketball coach. He grew up in the Bay Area and went to college with aspirations of becoming “a rock ’n’ roll star.” Thibault then decided he would be a high school English teacher and coach prep basketball. But at 29, after spending time as a high school and collegiate basketball coach, Thibault became the NBA’s youngest assistant coach, working with the Magic Johnson-led Lakers. He later joined the Chicago Bulls’ staff in 1982, a few years before they drafted Michael Jordan.

In 2013, after being fired by the Connecticut Sun, he came to D.C. as the Mystics’ head coach and general manager, intending to turn around a team that had finished its previous season 5-29. Thibault is now the winningest coach in WNBA history, and this October, the 69-year-old led the Mystics to the franchise’s first WNBA title.

—Kelyn Soong

How do you sustain that sense of community?

You keep it valuable in your home and in your heart. You make sure that even though with gentrification, we lose some things, traditions are important to keep up with your family, your friends, your community. And then you create new traditions which invite everyone to the table. I love going into the store, speaking to folks that live in the community and know me. And I speak to strangers. It doesn’t matter: If you move into community, now you’re a part of it.

You’ve told this story before where you were looking at the Mystics from afar, and were like, “Oh, those poor suckers...”

And then that was me.

What was going through your mind then?

What did you think of the organization, and what did you think once you got here?

I kind of came into my meeting with [team owner] Ted [Leonsis] and [president and managing partner] Sheila [Johnson] without having a lot of preconceived ideas. What I knew was that I saw a 5-29 team who had lost its spirit and its energy. The building had no energy and the fans were depressed. And so I came in trying to ask them as many questions as they asked me

them the truth, whether they want to hear it or not. I think from day one I’ve told our players, “You’re going to hear hard conversations from me or our staff.” And it’s not to demean or anything else, but this is about getting the group better. And I think players have to know that you’re not BS-ing them.

But I think the other part of it is constantly searching for players who want that and who embrace the family culture. Sometimes we’ve had to trade slightly more talented players for players who bought in better. And you need that consistency of emotion and effort every single day. And I think that’s what we finally got.

gy that we played with, and that was going to be our starting point.

to coach an average team to a title, they’re delusional. You have to have great players.

Then fast forward a couple years, you bring in Elena Delle Donne and Kristi Toliver. How big was that?

That’s huge. We had gotten to a level where we could be a playoff team, but you didn’t want to be one of those teams that make it every year, has a middle-of-the-pack draft pick, and is done in one or two rounds. And circumstances happen. We had a season, the year before

You’ve mentioned it a lot throughout the season, and so have a lot of the players: This is a family atmosphere. As a person in charge, how do you actually create that? Is it just the personalities on the team? Is there something that you do that can foster that?

I think there’s a couple things I can do, and I think the rest of it is what you do surrounding it. Players have to know that I’m telling

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Almost every member of the D.C. Council has appeared on the Ask Rayceen Show.

Why has that been important?

You cannot live in Washington, D.C. and not understand the power of politics and understand that we are in a political city. It’s important to invite everyone to the table to have their voice heard so they could hear voices above us, too. I allow everyone to come together and let them know this is a safe space.

No one will attack you. No one will make you feel uncomfortable. It is a place where no question is right or wrong and we engage it in a way that everyone feels invited, everyone feels welcome, and everyone feels safe.

Has activism always been a central part of your character?

Yes. I believe activism is important, how-

ever that may look for you. You know, I feel like there are some people who will write letters, some people who will cook the dinners while others will march. I choose to be visible, because I’m free in every part of my life. I’m out. I’m proud. I walk in who I am, my authentic self, and I’m so glad.

Not everybody can be free. Free people free people.

like, “You need to write a speech.” I was like, “I don’t want to have this speech that I look at if I don’t win.” I wrote it anyway.

When they called my name, I felt my soul leave my body. I’ve been envisioning myself on that stage for so long. As a culinary student, I used to volunteer for the James Beard Awards at Lincoln Center just so I could sit in the stands and envision that voice calling my name.

it’s more important to be courageous than afraid.”

What was the best piece of feedback you received about your book?

It validated people of color, women, minorities in general. They felt the same way and people thought they were crazy because they didn’t have concrete evidence that someone was marginalizing them. Even people in

Is it hard to fight for that in a place where people aren’t always receptive?

Everyone wants to be loved, whether it’s for a long time or a short time. I feel like we all want to be loved and I feel like helping folks love themselves better is greater than finding someone to love. Love yourself, love your neighbor, love your community. Love and respect and honor who you are. It’s infectious.

That’s why I love to hug people. Hugs are healing and they have the power to disarm.

I’ve hugged a lot of people that may not have liked me, and after we sit and have a conversation, we have an understanding and we meet somewhere in the middle and I say “I’d like to hug you.” It’s very disarming to someone who hates you.

Was 2019 the biggest year of your life, or is the best yet to come?

The biggest year of my life is the year I was born. But in my conscious life, yeah, definitely. But there’s more to come. I want every year to be better and better. I got “2019” tattooed on me. It’s a pretty shitty tattoo. It didn’t heal well. But I kind of like it because this year hurt. This tattoo hurt.

PAM HESS

THE FRIEND TO FARMERS Before joining Arcadia in 2013, Pam Hess was a career national security journalist. After a short stint on Capitol Hill, she served as the editor of the former food magazine Flavor and reconnected with her passion for sustainable agriculture, food systems, and the environment. She now serves as the executive director of Arcadia, a nonprofit on the Woodlawn Estate in Alexandria that does everything from growing and distributing fresh, affordable food to food deserts to training veterans to become farmers. —Laura Hayes

KWAME ONWUACHI THE CHEF

What was the moment when you won your 2019 James Beard Award for “Rising Star Chef” of the year like? Were you expecting it?

I was very nervous because I don’t really like to lose. I even remember the days leading up to it, I was very, very quiet and I’m usually not. The day of, my fiancée was

After Shaw Bijou you could have skipped town and gone onto performing your second act elsewhere. Why did you choose to stay?

I didn’t want to give up. I don’t give up. I did think about it, don’t get me wrong. There were a lot of people who wanted to see me leave but it’s like I wasn’t done. I had made D.C. my home. This isn’t my first time being in D.C. My grandfather taught at Howard. D.C. is home for me, more than it is for most people.

I have actual ties here, family here. I’m going to stay and figure it out.

What advice do you have for young people of color looking to make their mark on the hospitality industry?

Outwork everybody in the room. You have to be the hardest working person, but you need to soak up all the knowledge that you can and work at the hardest restaurant you possibly can. It’s going to suck and be really hard and difficult but do a year, gain all that knowledge, and then apply that to what you want. You can’t shine unless you’re continuously grinding and polishing yourself and sharpening your skills.

Do you think D.C. has done enough to support the LGBTQ community?

We’re still learning. We still have to teach our leaders, our teachers, our preachers, our children, how to respect the LGBT community. There’s still room for everyone to learn and grow, but living in this city, this aggressive, amazing creative city where so many people can talk to politicians and come together we have folks who are out holding office, I celebrate the joy because I look at folks in other countries who can’t be free.

We have to educate our leaders, we have to hold them accountable. We have to make sure laws are in place where everyone is free, where everyone is comfortable enough to live their truth and those who commit hate crimes are held accountable.

Kwame Onwuachi has shed his underdog status, but D.C. still loves rooting for the young chef who may be having the biggest year of his life. After a shaky start at the Shaw Bijou, Onwuachi decided to cook the food that shaped him. At Kith/Kin, he draws from his West African, Afro Caribbean, and Southern roots to create a menu that celebrates them all. Now Onwuachi is trying to uplift others who have felt marginalized.

—Laura Hayes

Hell yeah! I think he’s an incredible actor. He is literally my favorite actor. He’s so weird. He reminds me of myself a little bit. You can tell he gets really into his roles.

When your memoir, Notes from a Young Black Chef, came out, what parts were you most terrified for people to read?

The paragraph about Eleven Madison Park, Per Se, and the whole chapter about the Shaw Bijou. Also the stuff dealing with my father. It’s never my intention to hurt someone else even though I’ve been hurt.

It’s just my story and it needed to be told.

That’s what I was afraid of. People losing their jobs or being targeted. But I had good people around me who said, “At this time,

restaurants I’ve worked at—a lot of women who worked there were like, “Thank you for speaking up; this issue needed to be talked about.” There weren’t too many other black people there, so they didn’t say thanks. I was giving myself a high five in the mirror.

Your memoir is being turned into a movie. Do you think Lakeith Stanfield will do a better job than Bradley Cooper in Burnt when it comes to playing professional chef?

What do you see as the biggest threat today?

To quote [Arcadia board chairman] Michael Babin, “We have a food system that is extraordinarily effective at creating lots of calories that are cheap at the point of sale and devastatingly expensive in terms of public health.” You and I operate in a food system where we can make good choices or bad choices, but there’s a whole tranche of this city and whole tranche of this country where people simply don’t have a choice. They’re

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not making bad choices, they’re making the only choices available to them that are affordable and convenient. If you don’t have much money and you’re surrounded by stores stocking potato chips, Pop-Tarts, and sodas, that is what you’re going to eat. It’s not a failure of character, it’s a failure of the system. We should be washing our cities and towns in healthy food so that it’s the easy thing for people to pick.

What would you say is Arcadia’s biggest accomplishment over the past decade?

Our staff derive real pleasure from our Mobile Market program. Since we started in 2012, we have sold more than $1.35 million worth of food in neighborhoods that grocery stores won’t serve.

Americans have a reflexive faith in the laws of supply and demand. We think if there’s demand for a product, supply will follow. It is true in higher economic strata. But it isn’t when it comes to healthy fresh food in lower income communities. Our prices are 30 to 50 percent lower than farmers markets for the same or better quality food. Selling it is important because our customers want to have the dignity of participating in a mar-

ket economy. It’s fun to shop and buy stuff.

It’s not so fun to stand in line and be handed food. We are supporting a market economy that allows our customers to be partners in their health.

Arcadia Mobile Markets are serving a very real need and measuring it shows there’s so much unmet demand. The first year we sold $44,000, then $66,000, then $145,000, then $182,000, then $185,000, then $240,000, then $237,000, and we’ve already exceeded $255,000 this year in neighborhoods that people told us the reason grocery stores aren’t there is nobody wants that food.

What have you learned about veterans through working with them on Arcadia’s Veteran Farmer Program?

The prevailing narrative we have with vets is that they’re victims and that they need to be protected and taken care of. That’s true for some, but what I’ve found is that they are taking care of us. They are tough, resilient, smart, practical, thoughtful, energetic, entrepreneurial people who like to act on their environment.

There’s also a lot of folks who have come through who have had a traumatic brain injury, PTSD, or missing limbs. Farming is offer-

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ing them stuff, too. It’s inherently therapeutic for anyone. It’s good to have your hands in the dirt. There are compounds in the soil that your body absolutely needs and can only be accessed with your hands in the soil.

We have this national reach. They’re finding us because they want to be farmers and they also want to train with other military veterans because they share a culture. There’s something really marvelous about the fact that our farm used to be owned by the first American veteran—George Washington.

They’re learning their trade on this land.

What is one meaningful way Washingtonians can engage in the local food system?

Spend 10 percent more of their food budget, whatever that is, with food directly from local farmers, especially local farmers who are farming in a way that is regenerative of the earth. That 10 percent makes an actual different to those farmers. It’ll require you to be more active in your food purchasing, but it will put more money in the farmers’ pockets, maybe allowing them to buy more land, and certainly support the soil health they’re creating.

JULIE LAWSON

THE WASTE MANAGER Julie Lawson is the director of the Mayor’s Office of the Clean City. The longtime environmental activist makes sure she’s at the table when public works, transportation, environment, and other agencies discuss public health (rats!), trash disposal, and litter. She also serves on a citizens advisory panel trying to save the Chesapeake Bay. She previously ran her own marketing design company.

—Tom Sherwood How did you get involved in environmental issues?

I’m a third-generation native of Sarasota, Florida. My mom was a teacher and a marine biologist, so I grew up on the water watching her rescuing dolphins, manatees, and whales. My dad would take us camping.

He believes you leave [a site] better than you found it. We cleaned up others’ trash.

How did you get started in local advocacy?

In 2007, I started running the Surfrider [a national nonprofit dedicated to ocean and

beach protection] chapter here. I allowed it to take over my life. The D.C. bag fee campaign was in 2009 and that was when I really figured out that this was my passion. I started Trash Free Maryland in 2010 and then the Anacostia Watershed Society hired me.

You’ve said people may not necessarily see the big picture about environmental clean up, but they do care about their neighborhoods?

The different ways I have to look at trash has been eye-opening. I continue to come back to the idea that people protect the places that they care about. This office was created under Mayor [Anthony] Williams in 1999.

Mayor [Muriel] Bowser asked me just to bring the vision I had [for environmental advocacy].

In two years, you’ve more than doubled participation in city’s Adopt-A-Block Program. But trash collection is a chaotic jumble of trash and other trucks rumbling through the city.

Only 30 percent of D.C.’s trash [all residential] is collected by D.C. [public works] trucks. Seventy percent—everything else—is collected by 101 registered haulers, private companies. I have been looking at ways to streamline and zone routes. It’s a very disorganized system. We understand the current system doesn’t work for anybody, residents or businesses, and has a lot of environmental negatives. Whatever we do, we’ll end up working better when trash is picked up, rats are reduced, and residents feel like they are getting fair service. In the next 10 years we could really revolutionize our trash system.

NASEEMA SHAFI

THE HEALTH LEADER Naseema Shafi has been at Whitman-Walker for 13 years. She was promoted to Chief Executive Officer in 2019 and is the first woman to ever permanently hold the position. Whitman-Walker started as a health center for gay men who needed STI testing in the 1970s. Today, the health center still offers these services, plus many more, and continues to advocate for the LGBTQ community, going so far as to sue the Trump administration for rolling back insurance and provider protections for the community. Shafi finds herself at the helm of Whitman-Walker Health, thinking about its vision for the future. —Amanda Michelle Gomez You are Whitman-Walker’s first permanent woman CEO, and the first woman of color to hold the position. I’m sure you’re asked about this a lot, but given leadership in the health care industry—4 percent of CEOs are women—I wanted to ask, describe your rise in this male-dominated industry?

I was really lucky in that I’m an attorney and landed in a role as a compliance analyst in my very early stages because it set me up to kind of become an internal consultant for the place.

And I learned a lot through that process that

really gave me other opportunities along the way—to be in rooms that I wouldn’t have been in if I had different jobs. And the organization itself is LGBTQ-focused and has so many people of color who work for us, but also who are engaged in care with us. It’s a place that really is looking for authenticity and vulnerability and integrity, a lot of values that I think women naturally have and are very good at. We often, I think, are instructed or taught or modeled leadership where you can’t be those things at work, especially as a woman. But [that] has not been my experience. It’s been much better for me to be very authentic than to be guarded.

Describe the last year in this new position.

What’s it been like for you?

As a woman, it has been different for me in that I think that I’ve been treated differently in certain rooms than my predecessor, who’s fantastic and I adore. I think that’s something that I’m very conscious of and very aware of.

And I notice that other people notice it too.

So that’s been a nice reflection of the community’s protection and awareness of me.

Is there anything that you’re looking forward to next year? You’re excited about?

We are excited to expand services east of the river. And we are hyper-focused on how we’re going to do that. We’ve been trying to figure out and addressing our facilities needs my entire time there. It’s a decades-long process. And we have two more facilities left, the Max Robinson Center and Eastern Market need new sites. And so we’re really close on a plan to execute that. And that’ll happen soon, hopefully.

The biggest thing that’s definitely happening for us next year, we are taking advantage of the communication around ending the epidemic, the HIV epidemic… In Wards 7 and 8, the rates are still quite high. And then in sub-populations within the community, [for example] trans women of color or trans folks in general, they’re forgotten often in research and in care. We have huge sets of programs that are going to be launching, including a big social media campaign.

What brought you and keeps you in this line of work?

What brought me to Whitman-Walker was a desire to contribute to community, and that I felt disconnected from what mattered to people, to my neighbors. I just didn’t know—I was in more of a corporate setting. And in some corporate settings the only thing you could talk about is sports, it’s the most controversial thing you ever talk about. And so it was really important to me to be able to be contributing to the community. And what keeps me at Whitman-Walker every day is the opportunity that we have to create within our walls the place that the world should be. And that is a real gift.

DR. JAMILA PERRITT

THE COMPREHENSIVE CAREGIVER Jamila Perritt always knew she would be a doctor. A trained obstetrician and gynecolo-

gist, she grew up in D.C., attended DC Public Schools, and has been practicing locally for the last decade. She does clinical work based at Planned Parenthood, serves on D.C.’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee, and makes her voice heard about public policy that impacts her patients.

—Kayla Randall How do you describe your work?

The work that I do now as a professional person bridges medical care and social justice and community change. There are people that I take care of who are impacted by these policies that we’re pushing forward that are killing our communities. It matters whether or not we have safe water to drink, healthy food, and a safe place to stay, and if you can take your kids to the playground.

That doesn’t seem to most people to be within the realm of obstetrics and gynecology, but it absolutely influences the health

of that pregnant person, the baby they’ll ultimately deliver, and their ability to even survive their pregnancy.

Like living in a food desert makes it a lot harder to maintain the diet and health your doctor would want you to have?

Absolutely. The challenging part about food deserts is that they’re almost always partnered with food swamps. So it’s not just that you don’t have healthy food, it’s replaced by high calorie, low cost, unhealthy food. Those pairings are a perfect storm of poor health for our communities.

But then, as somebody who’s lived in all parts of the city—I lived over in Congress Heights in Ward 8 for a number of years, and that was before they put the Giant on Alabama Ave.—there’s always been pockets of poverty in our city. D.C. has always operated in these separate, parallel universes, where folks who have access to

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care, money, and resources live one way and the folks who are often left out in the cold don’t have those same opportunities. Whether we’re talking about schools or grocery stores, it’s our responsibility as providers of health care, in my opinion, that we advocate for all of the things that impact the health of the community—not just those things that are happening when they show up in our office.

How do you make people open their eyes to racial inequities?

The further you get in terms of your career, the more homogenous the room tends to look. For those of us who are at the table, we have to battle with those inequities, and times and places to speak up and stand up and sometimes, to shout. We cannot underestimate the cost of speaking up. It can’t just be the responsibility of the oppressed to do it. So how we engage our allies that are in the space, whether they’re willing or able to speak up and in what ways they can do so, are important conversations to have.

This is a system that so many of us are thriving in, including me in a lot of ways. To be able to say that I’m going to work against a system in which I’m thriving, as a person with these identities, is a big barrier for lots of people to cross. But it’s a necessary one because there is no success for any of us if all of us don’t have an opportunity to be able to participate in that. If you’re disconnected from your community, then you don’t feel it with the same sense of urgency that some of us do.

Being in the D.C. community and treating people from this community, what are you working to address?

There are huge pockets of inequity in this city, and there always have been. We’re seeing folks being pushed out more and more because of gentrification, decreased access to all kinds of parts of the city. We hear a lot about difficulty accessing care for many folks, but also when care exists, it not being culturally responsive or meeting the needs of the community. As a D.C. native, for me it’s always important that we continue to tap into the resources of the folks that have been here all along. What I find in my work is that we’re often bringing in people from other places to speak about what’s happening in our communities. We have the resources we need in the people in our communities to address the issues and the challenges. But if we never ask those affected, there’s no way we’re going to find a solution that works.

My grandma calls it “the come-heres and the from-heres.” There’s this idea that the come-heres have all of the answers. When I’m doing policy work on the Hill and people ask where I’m from and I say from here, they’re like “oh nobody’s from D.C.” We’re here, we exist—people who grew up here, who went to school here, who are invested in the community in a way no one else can be because this is our home.

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Stephens. But Karpf was squarely inside the Zeitgeist before #Bretbug: He studies digital political communication, and as we come off a historic election year with unprecedented online implications and enter another one, his work is incredibly relevant.

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MICHELLE BLACKWELL THE MUSIC MAKER

Talented, smart, and outspoken, go-go artist Michelle Blackwell has emerged in the past few years as one of the genre’s most admired stars. A veteran of Suttle Thoughts and Northeast Groovers, Blackwell now performs with and co-manages What?! Band and describes her style as “urban go-go soul.” Her ambitious 2018 Body of Work album stands as a powerful rebuke to anyone who claims that gogo artists don’t release original music. With the release of that album as well as her debut novel, Love-n-Gogo, in the same year, Blackwell has staked her claim as one of the genre’s best and brightest.

—Alona Wartofsky

So, about the Bretbug thing. What is the crux here? What did you tell your students?

I think, fundamentally, Bret Stephens believes that we have a social hierarchy that he is around the top of, and that if you’re high up in the social hierarchy, then you shouldn’t be criticized by the masses. And I think if you’re high up in the social hierarchy, you should be criticized by the masses. He went searching for this joke by a random guy, who happened to be me, and then he went after that guy, cc’ing his boss, because he thought that the boss should know that the random professor was saying bad things about a New York Times columnist, and we all know you’re not supposed to do that. I think that’s exactly what we’re supposed to do. What he was trying to frame as being about civility, I think was about an exercise in power.

The mistake that Stephens made that set this all up was he had decided he wanted to have a conversation with me and with my provost. And with social media, he doesn’t get to choose those boundaries. I then decided to reframe the conversation and have it be one between him and me and the entire internet, and that went terribly for him. If you could have ensured it was just him, me, and the provost, then what that does is signals to the provost that the important New York Times columnist is taking this very, very seriously. But when I decide I’m going to screenshot this and share this with Twitter, then the entire internet finds it hilarious and absurd that he’s going so over the top about being called a metaphorical bedbug.

When did you become absolutely certain that you would pursue a career as a gogo artist?

I’ve been a performing artist for as long as I can remember. It’s my first love, for sure.

Whether it was singing, acting, or dancing, I knew it gave me a sense of purpose and happiness unlike anything else I endeavored to do. So when the opportunity arose for me to perform in a band, it fit right into my performing arts niche perfectly since, of course, I already loved go-go music so much. At my first show with Suttle Thoughts in September of 2000, the energy I felt and received from the band and the crowd was so intense, and the energy reverberating through me was so intoxicating, that I can still feel it almost 20 years later. In that moment, I knew that I was here to stay. I was where I belonged.

You are intelligent, you’re a songwriter, singer, band manager, and video director. You also write fiction and have amazing hair. Is there anything that you’re really bad at?

Quite honestly, I can be really bad at all of the above and I have been, until I find ways to weed out what doesn’t work and cultivate what does. And that includes my hair.

I’ve gone through many trial-and-error moments trying to get to the right styles that work for me, and it’s the same method I use for any project I take on. It’s why I think I am “so good” at certain things. I’m just determined and I never give up until I find a way.

After you do that enough times in your life, you start to believe that you can achieve anything you set your mind and heart to.

We’re hearing a lot these days about DontMuteDC and Long Live GoGo. Why does go-go matter?

Go-go matters because culture matters. It matters because identity matters, and it matters because the story of African Americans matters. Go-go music is woven into the fabric of African American culture in this country, and like jazz, rhythm and blues, hip-hop, and rock ‘n’ roll, it was born out of our struggles and our joy and pain. Go-go tells our specific and unique story here in D.C. It must not only be preserved in every way possible, but maintained and sup-

ported so that it is still here 20 years from now, striving and continuing to grow.

You’ve done so much in the last couple of years. What’s next?

I am working on the sequel to Love-n-Gogo, a novel about a leading lady in a go-go band trying to navigate the go-go industry and the dating scene in Washington, D.C. I’m also working on my next album, which I’m hoping will be completed in the next few months. And last but certainly not least, the DontMuteDC movements have thrust us all into fast-forward politically, and a lot of my time will be spent trying to ensure that the culture is protected and preserved for future generations.

Readers may wonder whether the protagonist of Love-n-Gogo, Traci Mason, is a stand-in foryou. Can you comment on that?

I get that a lot. The funny thing is, even my closest friends who know my story still ask me if

certain parts of the book pertain to me. I have seen and experienced a lot that has influenced some scenarios, but for the most part, the entire book is born out of my imagination. Traci and I have some things in common, though. We both love to swim and make tacos.

DAVE KARPF

THE ONLINE PROFESSOR In the last week of August, George Washington University associate professor Dave Karpf tweeted an innocuous joke about the New York Times office having bedbugs, saying “The bedbugs are a metaphor. The bedbugs are Bret Stephens.” Hours later, Stephens, a conservative columnist at the paper, emailed Karpf and cc’d his provost with an invitation to call him a bedbug to his face, in front of his family. Karpf, who has tenure, tweeted the exchange, and the internet widely mocked

How has the internet changed as a tool for political communication in the last few decades?

I will give you a short, short version. If you go back to 2003, wi-fi is just becoming a thing.

Starting around that point, the hardline division between being online or offline gets blurrier and blurrier. And in 2007, with the introduction of smartphones, the blur goes further.

There was quite a while when being online meant that you were stuck at a desktop, which meant you weren’t doing things offline, like going to a bar or going to a protest. And that starts to blur with wi-fi, where now you can be online while you’re sitting at a laptop in a coffee house. And then it blurs even more— and for the past decade, the internet has always been in our pocket. The internet is always present for us, which means it’s getting layered on top, and it’s then used more to support our offline social behavior rather than being a choice against offline social behavior.

What are you looking at most closely as we go into another election cycle?

The story of this election cycle is not going to be about some new, sparkly technology.

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This is going to be an election about the decisions that Facebook and Google make, particularly because the Federal Election Commission just doesn’t function anymore. Rather than having government regulators make decisions about how you’re allowed to communicate in the election, instead Facebook and Google kind of have to decide that on their own, and they’re not going to do a great job with it because Facebook and Google were not built to make those decisions. What I’m really focused on is how do campaigns use Facebook and Google, and what are the choices that those two companies make for what they do and don’t support this election?

That’s the reason why there’s all the conversation about Facebook allowing candidates to lie in their ads—that legitimately is a really big deal, because without an FEC, the decisions that Facebook makes are effectively law.

HOWARD YOON

THE INFLUENTIAL AGENT Twenty-seven years ago, Howard Yoon took a job as a literary assistant in a law firm in D.C. Nearly three decades and multiple law

school deferrals later, he’s a literary agent at Ross Yoon Agency, and this year alone, he’s worked on a number of buzzy titles, including Garrett Graff’s The Only Plane In The Sky: An Oral History of 9/11, Gretchen McCulloch’s Because Internet, and Neal Katyal’s forthcoming Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump. Yoon represents nonfiction books that attempt to explain complex topics and influence the world for the better—and he believes that books can make an impact that, say, tweets can’t.

—Emma Sarappo What does a literary agent do for a book and for an author?

Our job is to represent clients and sell their books to publishers. I do what sports agents do, except my clients, instead of athletes, they’re authors. I don’t work with any one publisher; I work for the client, who’s the author. I’m their advocate throughout the entire book publishing process—that’s conception of idea and launch of the book, and then moving on to the next book, if there is one. My job is to know what the market is and what editors are looking for, and to push the person in the direction where it’s a little bit more marketable, a little bit more com-

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mercial, while still maintaining the thing that they’re trying to do, and the thing that they do well. The publishing business is this intersection of art and commerce, and sometimes people focus too heavily on one side or the other. They’re only obsessed with the artistic quality of the book or they’re only concerned with selling something, and when you lose track of the other side of the coin, then you probably end up with a book that you shouldn’t be writing or that won’t work in the market. It’s possible to do both: You can be successful, but also be creative and do good writing.

What are the things that you are trying to publish, especially right now?

I’m looking for stories that haven’t been told, or stories that we think we know about, but haven’t been told in the way that they’re going to be told by the author, so a different take or different twist on something. I’m looking for people who are really passionate and driven by a subject, and who will dig and dig and dig and go deeper into something, and really try to write a definitive book on X, Y, or Z. Or maybe it’s a memoir, and they have a story that really needs to come out. I have to believe in the

book. I have to believe in the author, I have to believe in the message. I think it’s easy to be cynical in publishing and to do things just to get the book deal or just to get the book sale.

And I think once you start, you know, deciding to take on clients based on those factors, you lose sight of what’s important. I think you can sort of get off track.

In the office, we said you represent “books that are trying to explain the world right now.” Would you agree with that characterization?

I think so—explain the world, but also influence the world in a particular direction. For the better, in my opinion. Either educating, or arguing, or compelling people to consider something in a way that they haven’t before, to be more reflective, to be more thoughtful, to be more conversant about things that are important in our lives. And I think this is why I can’t imagine being in another industry, because I do think that books occupy a certain space in our lives that is seemingly lost or narrower in our lives as we go faster and faster with our phones and our smart devices and stuff—that books can influence ideas over a long term period. If I can use my skills, as an

agent and also an editor and a marketer, to help people who I feel whose voices need to be heard, then that’s sort of my cause and my calling, and that’s how I wake up and go to work every morning. It feels good.

BEVERLY SMITH-BROWN THE HEALER

Beverly Smith-Brown couldn’t tell you how many funerals or vigils she’s attended this year, nor how many she’s helped plan. “When you’re hit with a boulder like that, the last thing you can think about is planning the last celebration for your loved ones,” she says.

She supports the families of homicide victims in whatever way they need as the cofounder of Momma’s Safe Haven.

Through its healing center, Momma’s Safe Haven provides free counseling and safe spaces for anyone who’s experienced trauma. Separating itself from other nonprofits, Momma’s Safe Haven tailors its care to whomever they’re helping. The goal is to help individuals become more self-sufficient, connecting them to the resources they did not know exist. It’s a trusted partner because

its members are part of the same Southeast D.C. community they primarily serve.

—Amanda Michelle Gomez You helped the mother of 11-year-old Karon Brown. Can you talk to me about that?

October 2017 is when I was first introduced to trauma on a professional level, because I became a first responder with Alliance of Concerned Men. I’m a part of the trauma recovery team, and what we do is we respond to crime scenes in the zip code of 20032. Last year, my nephews were gunned down, which made it personal for me. So with that and my sister hurting, it made me want to reach out to other grieving mothers and provide a space for them to come together.

Meeting Ms. Kathren Brown really hit home for me again because I met a person who is just living a nightmare. What we began to do was build a relationship just through text messages because I knew there was a lot of people around her. So eventually I would go over and give her flowers or something like that—anything to try to brighten her day. We took Karon Brown’s

family, 10 members of his family, to Massanutten, Virginia, for a healing retreat. We were there for two nights and three days and had an opportunity to do a nature walk and just really get to know each other in an organic kind of way. Not a “I’m a provider, you’re a victim” but just as people. So we just really connected on that level.

I attended a Momma’s Safe Haven comedy show for grieving mothers and saw Kathren there. How does Momma’s Safe Haven connect with the community and create that trust?

One of the biggest mandates for our community is unity. And that there is really no separation between us and that we are all connected. If one is hurting, then we’re all hurting.

One of the things for me that helps me is laughter. And in tough times, sometimes that’s all you can do is just laugh, you know?

And I know it sounds a little crazy, but sometimes that is a coping method.

One of the main things with Momma’s Safe Haven is we’ve been through so much personally. We’re from the community and understand the wall that’s put up, as it relates to services pouring into the commu-

nity. One of the things that we try to do at Momma’s Safe Haven is those real tangible things that can create transformation right then and there, like a grieving mother at a comedy show, laughing. When before, they couldn’t find no reason to laugh.

Why did you decide to do this work? You were a teacher before Momma’s Safe Haven.

I want to say it started when I was younger with my mom because my mom was a stayat-home mom. And she would watch people’s children when they came home from school. She always helped other people out.

Fast forward to me as a mom. My son was having some difficulties in school. He was basically being a terror in the community, and I never condoned it. The first thing they want to do is blame the mom. So my first meeting was in 2007. It was actually called Sisters United. And I put [up our flyer] and I posed three questions: Do you have a child in the juvenile system? Are you tired of being blamed? Do you need support? We had about 25 people show up.

And that’s when I realized that I’m not the only one who sees this epidemic with our

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children. [Before] I really felt like it was me against my community.

But then you built bridges and realized it wasn’t you against your community, but you standing with your community.

Exactly. Our mission statement is Momma’s Safe Haven was founded on the need of support from the community. We want the community to support mothers. It takes a village.

Where I’m weak, you’re stronger. So let’s fill in the gaps.

is also to do with a younger, aggressive generation of entrepreneurs who grew up in independent bookstores that were able to hang on, like Politics and Prose and Kramers, who are now opening their own stores.

How would you describe D.C. readers?

D.C. readers are a microcosm of readers all around the nation because a good chunk of our readers are from other places and they bring those reading tastes with them, and your O.G. D.C.ers are some of the most curious people I

is that I felt like my hometown was being occupied, which is a very dramatic way of talking about Trump’s party moving into town and interacting with a place full of real people who live here and work here every day and are real citizens of America and are weirdly at the mercy of the federal government. That felt like a very exaggerated version of what’s been happening in D.C. for a long time. What’s exciting is building a community that’s opposite to that, that is here to listen and here to have

MARY CHEH

THE ELDER STATESWOMAN

HANNAH OLIVER DEPP THE BOOKSELLER

Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh doesn’t even belong in politics—or so she said when we asked her to be in this year’s People Issue. The four-term politician and professor at The George Washington University Law School says she’s a bit uncomfortable in the limelight and isn’t much for self-promotion.

Despite her stage fright, Cheh, who has led several investigations into D.C. government shenanigans, once again finds herself in the middle of a Council scandal as the chair of the committee that will recommend what to do about Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans’ alleged ethical violations.

—Mitch Ryals

Hannah Oliver Depp has roots throughout the mid-Atlantic, but spent many memorable summers shopping at Politics and Prose.

She joined the staff of the legendary bookstore while attending graduate school at American University and decided to make bookselling her career soon after. Her new store, Loyalty Bookstore, opened in February in the former home of Upshur Street Books in Petworth, and a holiday pop-up in downtown Silver Spring is bringing the joy of books to Marylanders for the second year in a row.

—Caroline Jones What made you decide to open bookstores for a living?

I was able to have such an impact on my community and publishing by being a bookseller. It was incredible to see what happened when you confronted publishing about their lack of representation or thinking critically about what they were putting their weight behind. Bookselling is an oddly physically engaging, creative, crafty job, and it engages all the different parts of my history and my brain. There’s rarely a time your scifi nerdiness and your appreciation of Zora Neale Hurston and Virginia Woolf can come together in one place and be useful, and this is that place.

Why do you think D.C. has become the center of this indie bookstore boom?

One, which is a negative that we can try to turn into a positive, is gentrification. It’s a change in who is living where and what their expectations for their neighborhood are. There was a really hard adjustment period that independent bookstores had to go through to understand what makes us important and essential in the space of first, the chain bookstores, and then Amazon. It was leaning into what made us weird and special and becoming very smart business owners and not ignoring that this is, at its core, a retail establishment that needs to function as a retail establishment. It’s a lot of work going into the past 10 years of people having those conversations and talking about taxes and where they’re going that’s allowed indie bookstores to bloom again in Washington, D.C. This is a city that reads, this is a black city that reads and that is really really proud of its literacy and that cares a lot about books and letters. It’s a city that likes to be seen reading.

We like to have books on the Metro! A lot of it

scious of being from D.C. and who I felt like was talking to me and talking to my family. My new favorite, very much in that vein, is Camille Acker’s Training School for Negro Girls. It deals with what’s going on, it’s a complicated look at gentrification, a complicated look at race relations, a complicated look at what it’s like to be a normal person who’s walking around D.C. right now.

The Clean Energy DC Omnibus Amendment Act of 2018 is sprawling. It requires all electricity sold in D.C. to come from renewable sources by 2032, improves energy efficiency in existing buildings, gives low-income residents help with energy bills, and funds the socalled Green Bank to attract investment in clean energy projects. Can you talk about its conception?

What unlocked it for me was the realization that 75 percent of our energy use is in buildings, so if we could really get control of that, which is a prime aspect of this omnibus bill, we could make a real dent [and] get to our clean energy goals.

It means a quality of life for people now, but it means a quality of life for people in the future. I now have a grandchild. And I’m thinking about that. I never want my grandchild to say to me “You were in a position to do something, and you didn’t do it.”

have ever served. They don’t take anything at face value, they are going to ask you a bazillion questions about the book that you’re recommending for them, and they expect you to know your stock. They don’t play, even if the book they’re asking for is a humorous book.

What excites you about living and working in D.C. in 2019?

One of the reasons I wanted to move back

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educated conversations, who believe in facts and that there is something to talking about things that are difficult and complicated, not searching for the easiest answer or the person to blame.

Do you have a favorite book that’s either by a person from D.C. or is set in D.C.?

Is it cheating to say Edward P. Jones? That was probably the first author I was con-

What climate change legislation can we expect in the future?

We’ve done a lot of good cleaning up the rivers and the air and the energy stuff. We have lagged in the area of waste and what we do with all of our garbage.

You send stuff to a landfill, it produces a lot of methane gas. If you burn it in the incinerator there are a lot of issues about pollution there. We need to have curbside composting. I want the top 30 businesses that deal with food to compost, and if we get those, we will get about 50 percent of the food waste just with those 30 entities.

And we have these things called anaerobic digesters. You take the poop that

comes in, and put them in there, and these little bugs, bacteria, they eat them. It produces methane, [which can be used to] produce electricity. Talk about sustainable.

The poop comes in, you gotta deal with it, right? You don’t wanna dump it in the water. You get the electricity, and what’s leftover can be used for fertilizer. It’s a perfect system.

What’s a non-environmental project you’re working on?

Here’s an intersection between law teaching and the Council. I have enlisted students in a pro bono project. They’re not getting credit. I wanted to look at all of the misdemeanors [in the D.C. Code] and see which ones shouldn’t be a crime. Maybe they should be a citation or maybe they should be nothing because all of the byproducts of a criminal conviction.

TSEDAYE MAKONNEN THE CHALLENGER

mances, Makonnen is giving voice to the experience of migrants and women pushed out of view.

—Kriston Capps

When artist Tsedaye Makonnen visited the Venice Biennale, a global exhibition of contemporary art, she was moved to respond to one artwork by making something of her own.

For “Barca Nostra,” artist Christoph Büchel displayed the remains of a shipwreck off the coast of Libya in which between 700 and 1,100 people, most of them migrants, were lost. With

Tell me about the title of your Carroll Square show [“Senait & Nahom | ሰናይት :: እና :: ናሆም | The Peacemaker & The Comforter”] and what it means.

“Senait and Nahom” is named after a 19-year-old, Senait Tadesse, who committed suicide [in April 2018 in a German asylum center] and also killed her child,

Some were surprised to hear your call for Evans’ resignation, given your role as chair. What do you take away from the report on his ethical violations?

I’m quite happy to ask for his resignation now. I think the chairman made this point, which is a good point: What we see in that report is patterns and practices of behavior that are unacceptable and have been going on for many years.

In the everyday, in talking to him now, I realize I may not have been talking to him as another councilmember. I was talking to him on behalf of a client that he may have had.

What was your performance?

I had put some netelas [scarves] on different people in the audience. I was marching back and forth while wearing an Ethiopian kaba, which is the cape that monarchy used to wear. I was playing a song—this is what pissed them off—called “Faccetta Nera.” It was created in the Mussolini era. It’s about the carnal union between Italian men and little Ethiopian girls. It was used as propaganda to get Italy to support the colonization of Ethiopia. Mussolini didn’t like it—he was a [racial] purist.

Does the report reveal any deeper issues that extend beyond Evans?

It’s not just ethics violations, not just people who have clients, but the coziness and the special favors that go on all the time.

I’ve been here a while, so I should have realized this before. A lot of what goes on, in a kind of shenanigans way, is through subcontractors, and we don’t regulate subcontractors.

We give the award to a prime contractor, they then partner with a subcontractor, but then we don’t look at that. So I’m going to introduce legislation, I think, to address that.

How long can you do a plank?

I don’t know. How long was it?

(Cheh’s spokesperson says her boss planked for four minutes and 30 seconds.)

I could have gone on, actually. I do push ups. I used to do 200 [a day]. Not all at once, but look what I’m reduced to now. I do 40.

Why are these mirrored towers named after women?

If you look at a lot of the stories that are being tracked, specifically in the migratory patterns that are happening right now, it’s very male-centric. Culturally, it’s easier to get ahold of the men. A lot of women migrate in groups whereas men will migrate on their own. Like anything else, it’s patriarchy. The stories that are being told are the men’s stories. For me, as a woman, and knowing what it’s like to operate in the world in a black woman’s body, it’s way more dangerous. There’s so much more shit you have to deal with. Desperation. For me it was important to focus on women in this piece.

When did you decide you were going to do an unauthorized performance at the Venice Biennale?

It wasn’t until I got there and had sat in front of the boat for a few hours and had observed how people were interacting with it that I decided, alright, I have to do this.

For me it was a memorialization and also an intervention. It was cathartic, in an upsetting way, for the other black people who were there. It was mostly African migrants who died on that boat. My friend’s friend found out that one of her relatives was on that boat. It was being presented as an object in the Biennale by Christoph Büchel, who is a white European, titled “Barca Nostra:” our boat.

You’re leading the Council committee that will likely recommend discipline for Jack Evans. Did you request that role?

No, I certainly didn’t request it. This is something where you really want the cup to pass to somebody else.

I was told that you out-planked everyone in your office.

[Laughs] Yes, I did.

you in the future and that’s why they give you that name.

This is a wild song.

What is even wilder is it is sung to this day.

It’s a song that [Italians] are ashamed of.

Even though they’re ashamed and don’t want people to know it, everyone knows it. I was in Munich in February at a bar and an Italian man came up to me and sang that song. the support of the artist—and against the wishes of festival authorities—Makonnen staged a performance with the rusted hull of the ship as her backdrop. Locally, the D.C. native is exhibiting a solo show through Dec. 6 at Carroll Square Gallery, featuring a series of light-box columns—picture illuminated crystal totem poles—named after 50 black women, trans women, girls, and nonbinary people. Through her engaging textiles, sculptures, and perfor-

Nahom [Tadesse]. Her name means “the peacemaker,” and her son Nahom’s name means “the comforter.” As a mother, I can only imagine what lengths she was pushed to [in order] to have to do that. The meaning of names is really important in Ethiopian and Eritrean and African culture in general. Usually when you’re given a name, it’s for a very specific reason. Your family or community is envisioning something for

What happened with the police in Venice?

About 30 to 45 minutes in, they start putting up a type of barricade around the boat. That reiterated that they view the boat as an object.

Eventually, once I wrapped it up, these plainclothes cops came and started racially profiling the crowd, asking the black people in the audience for their documents. Non-black people were speaking up, like what the hell? CP

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CPARTS

How Waves paints a profound portrait of a Florida family washingtoncitypaper.com/arts

So Fresh and So Clean Studio Theatre’s White Pearl takes on corporate cosmetics and international beauty standards, often with hilarious results.

By Mike Paarlberg

White Pearl

By Anchuli Felicia King Directed by Desdemona Chiang At Studio Theatre to Dec. 15 Beauty is a big industry in Asia, and the way it is addressed— in commercials, and in conversation—is often blunt. In South Korea, subway stations are adorned with ads for plastic surgeons, with “before” and “after” photos of patients. In some “after” photos, the patient also wears a wedding ring.

Commenting on physical appearances is something akin to a national pastime in Asia. At least in Korea, there is a linguistic explanation for this. In the Korean language, many adjectives are verbs. The word for being fat, for example, is ddoongddoong hada, which literally translates to “doing fat.” Being fat isn’t a condition, it’s an activity, something you do. Thus everyone—especially my relatives—feels entitled to constantly comment on my favorite hobby, being fat.

This blunt assessment of beauty infuses White Pearl, a play

by Thai-Australian playwright Anchuli Felicia King, to uncomfortable and hilarious effect, depending on your personal experience. The product it examines is skin-lightening cream, a racist anachronism to many Americans, and a very normal product to many Asians. King’s inspiration comes from a notorious Chinese ad, which showed a black man being shoved into a washing machine by a Chinese woman and coming out light skinned and Chinese, to her delight. The ad went viral as “the most racist TV commercial ever made” in the West; in China, of course, it was uncontroversial.

King’s play takes off from that, depicting the undoing of a seemingly progressive woman-run cosmetics startup in Singapore following the release of a similarly problematic, though unseen, ad. The characters make no effort to downplay their work: They’re in the skin-whitening industry, and their ad is objectively racist. There is no moral grappling to do, just calculated decision-making about how to contain the fallout once Buzzfeed gets a hold of the ad, and whether it’s even a problem at all. As Korean chemist Soo-Jin (Narea Kang) points out, if their customer base is mostly in Asia, they likely won’t care.

But things go off the rails quickly, thanks to crazy Frenchman Marcel (Zachary Fall), who attempts to use the ad to blackmail his ex, Built (Diana Huey), into getting back together with him. As online outrage grows (depicted on stage through projections of YouTube pageviews), the once supportive workplace turns on itself, and its executives, Priya (Shanta Parasuraman) and Sunny (Jody Doo) start looking for scapegoats. Candidates include Xiao (Jenna Zhu), who approved the ad, Soo-Jin, who is not above blackmail herself, and Ruki (Resa Mishina), a naive recent hire from Japan.

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rality of the product around which it revolves. It takes for granted that women around the world are willing to poison themselves to make themselves look whiter, and that people make a lot of money helping them do so. As Ruki helpfully points out, selling such a product requires playing up women’s insecurities, as well as their shame about having them. After all, we live in a society that demands women spend money and effort to change their looks, then belittles them as frivolous for doing so. You can’t just call it whitening cream, says Ruki: “Call it Clear and Bright,” a reference to the very real (and very profitable) whitening product Fair & Lovely.

White Pearl isn’t a story of race or nationality, despite its multiracial and multinational characters and cast. It’s a story of an office, one in which cultural prejudices float freely, are occasionally weaponized in pointed exchanges, but are, like their product, taken for granted. But as the scandal heats up, solidarity breaks down and the venom comes out. King draws out rich personalities among her characters: from Sunny, who postures with a stilted hiphop argot despite, as Built points out, having never left Singapore; to Priya, the high strung and verbally abusive boss; to the insouciantly unhinged stalker Marcel, who doesn’t realize how nuts he is.

The acting is strong all around, anchored by Huey as Built, a go-getter who, as the victim of Marcel’s machinations, struggles to hold her life and her job together. The traumas she endures are at once painful and funny, and Huey balances her tragicomic role perfectly. The cast is as diverse as the characters, although some accents are unnecessarily exaggerated, as with Priya and Soo-Jin. But there are no cheap othering jokes about foreignness; the play, in fact, climaxes with a multilingual comparison of racist insults for foreigners. (The only one I knew was kojengi, which means big nose and is Korean slang for white people.)

More plays like White Pearl should be written, and theater companies should strive to stage them. Not merely plays by and about (non-white) women, though there are too few of those, but plays that force audiences to consider the subjective nature of things we are used to seeing from one perspective. White Pearl never lectures, and never patronizes, and it never fails to entertain in its depiction of a terrible business you somehow find yourself hoping to succeed, warts and all.

1501 14th St. NW. $60–$90. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

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THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram ......................................................... Th NOV 21 San Fermin w/ Wild Pink ............................................................................... F 22 Sasha Sloan w/ Winnetka Bowling League Early Show! 6pm Doors ................. Sa 23 Alex Cameron w/ Holiday Sidewinder & Emily Panic Late Show! 10pm Doors .. Sa 23 La Dispute w/ Touché Amoré & Empath ....................................................... Su 24 NOVEMBER

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Miami Horror

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Collie Buddz w/ Keznamdi ......Su 1 Mac Ayres w/ Stephn ................Tu 3

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Devendra Banhart

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Yola w/ Amythyst Kiah.................F 10 BASS NATION PRESENTS

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American Authors and MAGIC GIANT w/ Public ........Th 16

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CITYLIST

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Music FRIDAY CLASSICAL

BARNS AT WOLF TRAP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Escher String Quartet. 7:30 p.m. $42. wolftrap.org.

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Fleming and Gilfry in Brightness of Light/Noseda conducts Also sprach Zarathustra. 8 p.m. $15–$99. kennedy-center.org.

FUNK & R&B

THE ANTHEM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. Lettuce. 7:30 p.m. $41–$61. theanthemdc.com.

PEARL STREET WAREHOUSE 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Oh He Dead. 8 p.m. $20–$35. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

HIP-HOP

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Freddie Gibbs. 8 p.m. $25–$85. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Chris Knight. 8 p.m. $25–$35. citywinery.com.

FRIDAY

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

THAT 70’S

AGNES OF GOD

Even the biggest stars of Washington theater sometimes want a chance to do something small. That’s why a group of D.C. actors founded their own company in April 2009 and called it Factory 449. Over the past decade, they’ve produced a series of small, critically heralded dramas, including The Amish Project and Lela & Co. Factory 449’s fall offering, Agnes of God, stars company members Nanna Ingvarsson and Felicia Curry as a nun and psychiatrist, respectively, questioning the sanity of a young novice (Zoe Walpole) who insists that she conceived a child via immaculate conception. Playwright John Pielmeier has described his 1979 play as “a detective story, not only of the world, but of the mind and of the soul.” In a few weeks, director Rick Hammerly and his cast members will assume roles in major holiday shows at Ford’s Theatre and the Kennedy Center. Before they do, see them produce a passion play of their own. The play runs to Nov. 24 at Anacostia Arts Center, 1231 Good Hope Road SE. $23. (202) 355-9449. factory449.org.

—Rebecca J. Ritzel

MANSION AT STRATHMORE 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Pardon My French!. midnight $30. strathmore.org.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. The Building. 8 p.m. $12– $14. songbyrddc.com.

WORLD

BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Global Folk at Bossa: Slovakia, USA, Italy. 7 p.m. $5–$10. bossadc.com.

SATURDAY BLUES

GLEN ECHO PARK 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo.

(301) 634-2222. Swing & Blues Dance with Cathy Ponton King. 8 p.m. $15 Advance Online; $20 At the Door. glenechopark.org.

CLASSICAL

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Fleming and Gilfry in Brightness of Light/Noseda conducts Also sprach Zarathustra. 8 p.m. $15–$99. kennedy-center.org.

MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. National Philharmonic: Voices of Light Silent Film & Live Orchestra.

8 p.m. $10–$79. strathmore.org.

RACHEL M. SCHLESINGER CONCERT HALL AND ARTS CENTER 4915 East Campus Drive, Alexandria.

(703) 323-3000. Yekwon Sunwoo with Washington Chamber Orchestra. 6:30 p.m. $18–$67. nvcc.edu.

COUNTRY

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Corey Smith. 8 p.m. $25–$35. citywinery.com.

ELECTRONIC

THE ANTHEM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

Gesaffelstein. 8:30 p.m. $45–$75. theanthemdc.com.

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ALL GOOD PRESENTS

KELLER WILLIAMS’ THANKSFORGRASSGIVING FEAT. KELLER & THE KEELS W/ SPECIAL GUEST LINDSAY LOU SUN, DEC 1

3:00pm & 6:30pm

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS W/ THE ERIC BYRD TRIO TUE, DEC 3

SLATE PRESENTS

HANG UP AND LISTEN LIVE IN DC SUN, DEC 8

VIENNA TENG W/ EMMA HERN SUN, DEC 15

EMMYLOU HARRIS:

AN INTIMATE PERFORMANCE

BENEFITING BONAPART’S RETREAT

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

SAT, DEC 21

MIKAL CRONIN

Indie rocker Mikal Cronin’s career has embodied the spirit of the “potpourri” category on Jeopardy!. Known for mixing and matching power pop, mild psychedelia, and bluesy ballads throughout his solo work, he’s also displayed his range when collaborating with Charlie and The Moonhearts and Thee Oh Sees. But it’s especially Cronin’s solo career that has drawn acclaim. His first three albums, bluntly titled Mikal Cronin, MCII, and MCIII, ran the gamut of the garage-rock spectrum. After a four-year hiatus from his solo work, punctuated by several appearances with Ty Segall, Cronin released Seeker in October on Merge Records.

Over the course of 10 songs, Cronin breaks new ground while also sticking to a tested songwriting formula. Mikal Cronin performs at 7 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $15. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Tristan Jung

WILD CHILD STRIPPED DOWN (DUO) W/ CAMERON NEAL

THU, DEC 26

AN EVENING WITH BEN

WILLIAMS: A HOLIDAY MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA

FRI, DEC 27

AN EVENING WITH

LIVE AT THE FILLMORE:

THE DEFINITIVE TRIBUTE TO THE ORIGINAL ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND SAT, DEC 28

YELLOW DUBMARINE FOLK

POP

SUN, DEC 29

PEARL STREET WAREHOUSE 33 Pearl Street SW.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Beach Bunny. 8 p.m. $13– $15. songbyrddc.com.

W/ RUBY DEAR

(202) 380-9620. Sarah Shook & the Disarmers. 8 p.m.

Free. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

HIP-HOP FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.

9 p.m. $30–$102. fillmoresilverspring.com.

ROCK

START MAKING SENSE: A TALKING HEADS TRIBUTE

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Sun Seeker. 7 p.m. $12–$15. dcnine.com.

HOWARD THEATRE 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Vintage Trouble. 7:30 p.m. $20–$25. thehowardtheatre.com.

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U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Mikal Cronin. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

VOCAL

BARNS AT WOLF TRAP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Sutton Foster. 8 p.m. $67–$85. wolftrap.org.

WORLD

EAGLEBANK ARENA 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax.

(703) 993-3000. Los Temerarios. 8:30 p.m. $49–$129. eaglebankarena.com.

SUNDAY FOLK

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Josiah Johnson. 8 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com.

HIP-HOP

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Tobe Nwigwe. 8 p.m. $25– $85. fillmoresilverspring.com.

POP

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Pip Blom. 8 p.m. $12. songbyrddc.com.

U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Jaymes Young. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

ROCK

BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Herman’s Hermits with Peter Noone.

7:30 p.m. $49.50. birchmere.com.

BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Black Marble. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

VOCAL

BARNS AT WOLF TRAP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Sutton Foster. 2 p.m.; 7 p.m. $67–$85. wolftrap.org.

MONDAY HIP-HOP

THE ANTHEM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

Brockhampton. 8 p.m. $40–$75. theanthemdc.com.

ROCK

CAPITAL ONE ARENA 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200.

Tool. 7 p.m. $45–$105. capitalonearena.viewlift.com.

VOCAL

KENNEDY CENTER TERRACE THEATER 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Soloman Howard. 7:30 p.m. $39. kennedy-center.org.

FUNK & R&B

KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Thanksgiving Day Swing. 5:30 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Books

ADAM PLATT Platt will discuss his book The Book of a Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony with Corby Kummer. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Nov. 25. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

ALEX KARAKATSANIS Karakatsanis will discuss the new book Unusual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System. Politics and Prose at The Wharf. 70 District Square SW. Nov. 25. 7 p.m. Free.

(202) 488-3867. politics-prose.com.

DANA R. FISHER Fisher will be discussing her book American Resistance: From the Women’s March to the Blue Wave with James Zogby. Politics and Prose.

5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Nov. 23. 6 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

DAVID J. SILVERMAN Silverman will discuss his new history book This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Nov. 24. 5 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

DEXTER PALMER & MARK HABER Palmer and Haber will both discuss their books Mary Toft; Or, the Rabbit Queen and Reinhardt’s Garden Politics and Prose.

5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Nov. 24. 1 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

KRISTEN RICHARDSON Richardson will discuss her new book The Season: A Social History of the Debutante. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Nov. 23. 3:30 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

LAWRENCE LESSIG Lessig will discuss his book They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Nov. 22. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

HIP-HOP

HOLIDAY

RANA FOROOHAR Foroohar will discuss her book Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles—and All of Us. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Nov. 26. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

HOWARD THEATRE 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Dave East. 9 p.m. $25.50–$30. thehowardtheatre.com.

THE ANTHEM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. The Brian Setzer Orchestra’s Christmas Rocks!. 8 p.m. $55–$125. theanthemdc.com.

POP

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. Keith Harkin (of Celtic Thunder). 8 p.m. $35–$75. pieshopdc.com.

WEDNESDAY HIP-HOP

HOWARD THEATRE 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Yasiin Bey (FKA Mos Def). 9 p.m. $55–$65. thehowardtheatre.com.

POP

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Snoh Aalegra. 8 p.m. $45– $88. fillmoresilverspring.com.

Sutton Foster was only an understudy in the premiere production of Thoroughly Modern Millie when a last-minute casting change catapulted her into the titular role full-time. The show’s creative team was so impressed by Foster’s performance that she continued playing Millie when the show transferred to Broadway and wound up winning her first Tony Award for the role. In the nearly 20 years since, Foster has established herself as a leading lady of the stage, playing a broad range of characters, including Jo March in Little Women and Princess Fiona in Shrek The Musical. Her trademark charm and bright personality landed her the starring role in Younger, TV Land’s comedy series about a woman in her 40s who furthers her publishing career by pretending to be 26. Foster’s latest album, Take Me to the World, shows her mezzo-soprano voice and strong belt across musical theater standards and traditional pop.

Catch her in concert before she returns to Broadway in next season’s revival of The Music Man opposite Hugh Jackman. Sutton Foster performs at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. at The Barns at Wolf Trap, 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. $67–$85. (703) 255-1868. wolftrap.org.

—Mercedes Hesselroth

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

TOOL

SARAH STEIN Stein will discuss her book Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Nov. 24. 3 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

Dance

ATLANTA BALLET: THE NUTCRACKER Atlanta Ballet’s new production of the holiday classic travels to D.C. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. Nov. 27; Nov. 28. $49–$179. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

THURSDAY

REFORM In Reform, Baakari Wilder and Kerri Edge use tap dance to highlight racial disparities and biases in American criminal justice. Dance Place. 3225 8th St. NE. Nov. 23; Nov. 24. $15–$30. (202) 269-1600. danceplace.org.

FLASH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Carlo Lio. 9 p.m. $8–$15. flashdc.com.

SPLATTER - JANE FRANKLIN DANCE Is a splatter an unlikely accident or a careless gesture that ruins the day? An upset spills everywhere and becomes the

ELECTRONIC

SUTTON FOSTER

LEILA TAYLOR Taylor will discuss her book Black History and America’s Gothic Soul with Ericka Taylor.

Politics and Prose at Union Market. 1270 5th St. NE. Nov. 24. 5 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

MARK CHARLES AND SOONG-CHAN RAH Charles and Rah’s book Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery discusses the far-reaching harm from the colonialist idea that Europeans “discovered” already inhabited land. Solid State Books. 600 H St. NE. Nov. 22. 7 p.m.

Free. (202) 897-4201. solidstatebooksdc.com.

TUESDAY

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Tool sometimes get lumped in with sludgy nu-metal bands that rose to prominence in the mid 2000s (Korn, Breaking Benjamin, etc.). That’s a reductive classification. You can start to describe Tool by comparing them to Mudvayne, but you get closer to the mark by saying that they sound like the puzzle box from Hellraiser being set on fire. So, happily, the release of Fear Inoculum, their first new album in 13 years, doesn’t feel like a cynical attempt to reanimate a dead scene. Instead, it’s a long-anticipated interjection from a half-forgotten voice. Many bands with heavy sounds dabble in heavy themes, but death and pain aren’t just set dressing for Tool. Some of the band’s most popular songs confront topics like cycles of abuse, the commodification of violence, or a desire to see one’s home state swallowed into the ocean. Part of Tool’s appeal is the catharsis of seeing the gruesome extremes of the human experience tackled head on. Tool perform at 7 p.m. at Capital One Arena, 601 F St. NW. $75–$120. (202) 628-3200. capitalonearena.viewlift.com. —Will Lennon

CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

THE OUTWIN 2019: AMERICAN PORTRAITURE TODAY

If you have yet to visit the National Portrait Gallery, the fifth triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition is an ideal reason to do so. The exhibition will display the work of 46 finalists—five of whom are from D.C.—from the annual portraiture competition.

The artworks in this year’s collection pay special attention to immigrants, people of color, and diverse gender and sexual identities, thanks to a first-ever request that the works submitted address “the current political and social context.” Altogether, the showcase highlights the importance of modern portraiture as a means of observing the contemporary American experience. The first prize winner, Hugo Crosthwaite, will receive $25,000 for his work “A Portrait of Berenice Sarmiento Chávez,” and the Portrait Gallery will commission him to create a portrait of a living person for its permanent collection. The exhibition runs to Aug. 30, 2020 at the National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. Free. (202) 633-8300. npg.si.edu.

—Callie Tansill-Suddath

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

SNOH AALEGRA

reason to examine feelings. Whose fault is it anyway? Angry, happy, sad, calm and mixed up emotions are sorted in this colorful story about an incidental accident. Splatter is certain to take you on a vibrant journey with spoken word, movement, and music; inspired by the book “The Color Monster” by Anna Llenas. Theatre on the Run. 3700 S. Four Mile Run Drive, Arlington. Nov. 23. 4 p.m. $10–$15. (703) 2281850. arlingtonarts.org.

LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS This one-man play seeks to correct the record by adding Latinos back into the history books. National Theatre. 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. To Nov. 23. $59–$99. (202) 6286161. nationaltheatre.org.

NEWSIES Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst are no match for the striking newsboys of New York City in the sultry summer of 1899. Arena Stage.

1101 6th St. SW. To Dec. 22 $86–$105. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.

Theater

AGNES OF GOD Dr. Martha Livingstone, a courtappointed psychiatrist, is charged with assessing the sanity of Agnes, a novice nun accused of murdering her newborn. During her investigation of the death, which inevitably leads to questions of the child’s conception, Dr. Livingstone contends with objections from the convent’s calculating Mother Superior, the church itself, and even Agnes, who professes total ignorance of both the process of procreation and of her own pregnancy. Anacostia Arts Center. 1231 Good Hope Road SE. To Nov. 24. $23. anacostiaartscenter.com.

AIRNESS Nina thinks winning an air guitar competition will be easy—until the lovable nerds she’s competing against prove her wrong. Keegan Theatre. 1742 Church St. NW. To Nov. 30. $36–$58. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com.

AMADEUS This play dramatizes Mozart’s ascent from child prodigy to favored composer—and the palace intrigue going on between the title character and his foe and rival Salieri. Folger Elizabethan Theatre. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. To Dec. 22. $27–$85. (202) 544-7077. folger.edu.

A CHORUS LINE Signature stages one of the most classic American musicals, A Chorus Line—the story of hopeful dancers in an audition room hoping for a spot in the chorus line. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Jan. 5. $40–$110. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL In this classic Dickens tale, a miser learns the true meaning of Christmas—with some help from some ghostly apparitions. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To Jan. 1. $32–$124. (202) 347-4833. fords.org.

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME 15-year-old Christopher Boone, a boy who sees the world differently from most people, begins investigating the grisly death of his neighbor’s dog and finds himself on a coming-of-age journey. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To Nov. 22. $32–$68. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org.

DEAR JACK, DEAR LOUISE Two strangers meet by letter during World War II and hope to meet in person, but the war keeps pushing them apart. Arena Stage.

1101 6th St. SW. To Dec. 29. $56–$72. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.

DON’T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS! This musical follows the misadventures of a precocious pigeon who’s always getting into the next big thing. Kennedy Center Family Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 5. $20.

(202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

“It’s somethin’ about you that’s so familiar, somethin’ that’s got me wantin’ to know you, and I can’t put my finger on it, but it feels, oh, like I’ve been here before,” Snoh Aalegra sings on “Fool for You.” That sense of deja vu permeates much of her music, which continues the straightforward soul music lineage of Lauryn Hill and Amy Winehouse. Born in Sweden to Iranian parents, 32-year-old Sheri Nowrozi spent much of her teens and 20s in the music business before donning her Snoh Aalegra alias. Around that time, Prince reached out to her, and the two spent some time in Paisley Park and Los Angeles before his 2016 death. Whatever wisdom Prince passed on must have worked. Along with collaborating with the likes of Common, Vince Staples, and Logic, Aalegra gives classic neosoul and quiet storm a millennial spin, naming her emotionally charged album Ugh, Those Feels Again and writing paeans to complicated couplings on a song titled “Situationship.” Snoh Aalegra performs at 8 p.m. at The Fillmore Silver Spring, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $45–$88. (301) 960-9999. fillmoresilverspring.com.

—Chris Kelly

a new kind of family to replace those they have lost.

Gunston Arts Center, Theatre Two. 2700 South Lang St., Arlington. To Nov. 23. $25. (703) 418-4808. dominionstage.org.

HAMLET Based on a French adaptation of the Shakespeare play, this opera version of Hamlet is an emotionally stirring rendition. Soprano Lisette Oropesa, a Richard Tucker Award winner, will portray Ophelia. GW Lisner Auditorium. 730 21st St. NW. To Nov. 24. $15–$110. (202) 994-6800. lisner.gwu.edu.

HARD TIMES Charles Dickens’ tale of the circus, set in Industrial Revolution England, features four actors playing dozens of characters. Washington Stage Guild at Undercroft Theatre. 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW. To Dec. 8. $25–$50. (240) 582-0050. stageguild.org.

KEEP. Keep. is a new one-man show about the past, the present, holding on to the former, and starting over in the latter, written and performed by Daniel Kitson. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Dec. 1. $20–$25. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

LAST SUMMER AT BLUEFISH COVE Seven lesbian friends settle in for a seaside stay when the unexpected arrival of a straight woman who just left her indifferent husband in the city puts them in jeopardy of being outed. Over the summer, the friends become

OCCUPANT Facts are in dispute and words are in question in this late-career masterpiece by multiple Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Delicate Balance). A little Jewish girl from Russia immigrated to the US and became the renowned sculptor Louise Nevelson. In Occupant, she’s been invited to participate in an interview -- from beyond the grave. Through her ups and downs, her contradictions and evasions, we witness the deep inner turmoil and intrepid triumphs of one of the 20th century’s greatest artistic minds. Starring Susan Rome, this surprising, touching, and delicious play is an unabashed exploration of how a pioneer for free-thinking women everywhere found her voice.

Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Nov. 30 $34–$64. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org.

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN This classic American musical—featuring songs like “Good Mornin’” and “Make ‘em Laugh”—follows Hollywood’s transition from the silent era to the talkies. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Jan. 5 $37–$69.

(301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org.

TWELFTH NIGHT This play is the classic Twelfth Night set to the 1969 backdrop of Woodstock and the Vietnam War. Shakespeare’s Illyria is undergoes the redefining of gender roles, war, and music. George Mason University Center for the Arts. 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. To Nov. 24 $10–$20. (888) 945-2468. cfa.gmu.edu.

WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: THE MAGIC FLUTE This whimsical production designed by Maurice Sendak of Where the Wild Things Are stages Mozart’s beloved opera in a world of playful, evocative fairy tales. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Nov. 23 $25–$299. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

WHITE PEARL This comedy about whiteness and the beauty industry follows the fallout of a skin whitening cream ad’s leak—and someone’s definitely getting fired. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Dec. 8 $20– $80. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

Film

21 BRIDGES An NYPD detective hunts for a pair of people who killed a fellow cop—and unravels a massive conspiracy in the process. Starring Chadwick Boseman, J.K. Simmons, and Taylor Kitsch. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) A DRY WHITE SEASON With A Dry White Season, made at the climax of the anti-apartheid movement, director Euzhan Palcy issued a devastating indictment of South Africa’s racist government— and made history in the process, becoming the first black woman to direct a Hollywood studio film. White schoolteacher Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) lives in Johannesburg and remains blissfully incurious about the lives of his black countrymen until a wave of brutal treatment comes crashing down on his gardener (Winston Ntshona), bringing du Toit face to face with harsh political realities. There will be a Q&A with Palcy. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) CHARLIE’S ANGELS Three high-powered female spies—Charlie’s Angels—must protect a whistleblower who exposes a dangerous technology. Starring Elizabeth Banks, Naomi Scott, and Kristen Stewart. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) DOCTOR SLEEP In this sequel to The Shining, a grown-up Danny Torrance must protect a young girl with psychic powers from a cult who wants to harm

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WORLD PRESS PHOTO EXHIBITION 2019

PUZZLE SPECIAL K

By Brendan Emmett Quigley

FROZEN 2 Anna, Elsa, and Kristoff leave Arendelle to try and find the source of Elsa’s powers—and hopefully save the kingdom. Starring Kristen Bell, Jason Ritter, and Evan Rachel Wood. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) THE GOOD LIAR A well-to-do widow is picked up by a con man looking to score, but things get complicated quickly. Starring Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, and Russell Tovey. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) HONEY BOY Shia LaBeouf plays a father in story based on his own childhood and family relationships.

Starring Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, and FKA Twigs.

(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) KNIVES OUT The head of a bickering, eccentric family dies, and a detective is sent to investigate. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, and Chris Evans. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) LAST CHRISTMAS A frazzled woman living a messy life takes work as one of Santa’s elves—and meets

PLAYING WITH FIRE A group of manly firefighters have to rescue—and take care of—three rambunctious children. Starring John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key, and Judy Greer. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) QUEEN & SLIM A police officer pulls over a couple on a first date—and what happens next bonds them and sends them on the run. Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Indya Moore, and Chloe Sevigny. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) THE REPORT A Senate staffer uncovers dramatic secrets when he investigates the CIA’s post-9/11 activities. Starring Adam Driver, Jon Hamm, and Annette Bening. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) WAVES A black family navigates love, forgiveness, and togetherness in the aftermath of loss. Starring Taylor Russell, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Alexa Demie.

(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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MIDWAY Midway covers WWII’s dramatic Battle of Midway through the perspective of the soldiers who fought in it. Starring Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, and Luke Evans. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

FORD V FERRARI Two Americans attempt to push the laws of engineering and physics and create a Ford that can compete against a Ferrari at a 1966 race. Starring Christian Bale, Matt Damon, and Caitriona Balfe. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

a man who feels too good to be true. Starring Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, and Emma Thompson. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

them both. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

A member of an all-female anti-poaching group training in a wildlife park in Zimbabwe. The assassin of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov yelling moments after murdering him. A young man catching on fire during a protest against President Nicolås Maduro in Venezuela. These are the kinds of images selected and exhibited every year by World Press Photo, an Amsterdam-based nonprofit which has hosted an annual international photojournalism contest since its foundation in 1955. The World Press exhibition came to the District in 2017, debuting its largest U.S. show ever at the Dupont Underground. This year, visitors can expect images capturing everything from Ireland’s movement to overturn restrictive abortion laws to the growing Franco African fashion culture in Dakar, Senegal. And the 2019 Photo of the Year will be familiar to most—it’s John Moore’s image of a Honduran toddler crying as she and her mother are taken into custody by border officials in McAllen, Texas, which went viral last summer. The exhibition runs to Dec. 8 at Dupont Underground, 19 Dupont Circle NW. $10–$15. dupontunderground.org. —Ella Feldman

1 "My pronouns are" word 4 Prepares for some blood work, maybe 9 Verizon highspeed internet option 13 Bulletin board "material?"

14 "Somebody That I Used To Know" one-hit wonder 15 Some Roths, briefly 16 National Burrito Day mo.

17 Sort of drunk stand-up's delivery?

19 Jimmy of fashion 21 Hold onto 22 Throw an egg at one of your parents?

25 Landscaper's workspaces 28 Grunge pattern 29 Most respected 30 On time 33 Where to go 34 "Are we cool?" vs. "Are you a commoner?"

38 Show off one's engine's power, say 39 "Not fronting" 40 Fixes, as the length of one's pants 43 It takes place in the office in Glengarry Glen Ross 46 Candidate's website section 47 "I am totally aware of the latest social issue"?

50 Like a small garage 52 Goes this way or that way 53 How a chainsmoker lives?

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But is it immoral? Above all, what should I do when future opportunities present themselves?

—Professor Horn-Dog Can we please not describe one adult subtly and perhaps unintentionally telegraphing their attraction to another adult as “grooming”? That term refers to adult sexual predators insinuating themselves into the lives of minors, slowly gaining their trust and the trust of their family members, so they can abuse them sexually. It means something very specific, PHD, and we shouldn’t confuse or cheapen its meaning by applying it to your behavior—which, while not criminal or immoral, is incredibly stupid.

Yes, these relationships are permissible, in the sense that the school where you teach permits them. They aren’t against the rules, those young men were all consenting adults, and you’re honoring the campsite rule (leave them in better shape than you found them).

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not asking me what’s permissible, but what’s advisable. And what you’re doing is crazy inadvisable for all the reasons you cite: the risk of promising and hot gay male students misinterpreting your interest in them as sexual, your straight students feeling like they may not be getting the full benefit of your attention, and your mediocre and not hot gay male students—sorry, your mediocre and not conventionally attractive gay male students—interpreting their failing grades as sexual rejection.

I, too, am a sex-positive person who believes in happy, consensual banging, and I don’t think what you’re doing is immoral. But it is incredibly reckless at this particular moment on any American college campus. Power and consent are minefields that students, professors, and administrators are tiptoeing

If every guy over 30 that you’ve been with has been underwhelming, well, it’s possible they were picking up on your lack of enthusiasm/attraction and reflecting that back at you. through, PHD, but you’re humping your way across them. Becoming known on campus as one of “those” professors—because you are one of those professors—could wind up being the least of your problems. What if your college revises its rules while you’re balls-deep in a student? What if you have a falling-out with a student you banged and he files a complaint?

What if you want to move to a different school that has different rules and your reputation precedes and disqualifies you?

Finally, PHD, it’s fine to be attracted to younger guys. But if all your experiences with guys in their 30s have been dispiriting and transactional, well, it sounds like you were the common denominator in a lot of meh sexual encounters. Speaking from experience, I can say that plenty of guys over 30 are excited about sex and good at it. If every guy over 30 that you’ve been with has been underwhelming, well, it’s possible they were picking up on your lack of enthusiasm/attraction and reflecting that back at you.

—Dan Savage I’m a 33-year-old woman in a nine-year LTR with another woman. Our relationship hasn’t been great in the intimacy department for a long time. We’ve talked it to death, with no real significant change. I started talking to a woman online a few states over who is married and in a simi-

lar situation with her husband. Things are great between us, but neither of us envisions a future where we would leave our partner. My partner is chronically ill and I support her financially, and my online GF and her husband have young children. I’m wondering if you know anything about sustainability in a relationship with someone online. I’ll admit that sometimes it’s torture to not be able to be with her in real life. But then there’s the question of our significant others. Is it okay to keep this secret if things are good otherwise?

—Making It Last Forever Your significant others aren’t questions, MILF, they’re people—and you don’t intend to leave your person, and your online girlfriend doesn’t intend to leave hers. So if you want to spare your chronically ill partner the anxiety of worrying you might leave her for this other person, then you’ll keep the online GF a secret.

But you need to ask yourself—and your online GF needs to ask herself—if this online relationship/emotional affair is making you a better, more contented, and more emotionally available partner to your IRL partner. If it’s making you a better partner to the person you’re actually/technically/physically with, then great.

But if it’s a distraction that’s causing you to neglect or resent your IRL partner, MILF, then you’ll have to end it. If it’s harming your IRL relationship and you don’t end it, then you’re engaging in shitty, dishonest, slo-mo sabotage.

As for the sustainability of online relationships, there are people out there who’ve maintained online connections—intense friendships, romantic and/or sexual relationships—for as long as people have been able to get online. Sometimes online relationships run their course and come to an end, just like offline relationships and sometimes the online platforms they began on. (There are people out there who are still involved with people they met on Friendster and Myspace.) But offline or on, MILF, there are always challenges and never guarantees.

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The Sojourner Truth Legals Public Charter School requests proposals DC SCHOLARS PCS REQUEST for the following: FOR PROPOSALS – Modu● Family and community lar Contractor Services - DC engagement Scholars Public services Charter School to assist the school in solicits proposals for a modular achieving enrollment contractor to provide professional targets in SY2020-2021. management and construction services construct a modular Full RFPto document building to house four classrooms available by request. and one faculty offi ce suite.

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Notice of lined in the RFP specifi cations will Appointment, not be considered. Notice to Creditors and Notice to Unknown Heirs, Robert Apartments for Rent Drew and Rita Drew, whose address is 7405 Kenstan Ct, Temple Hills, MD 20748; 4703 8th St NW, Washington, DC 20011 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Beatrice Ward who died on September 21, 2018, with a Will Must see!serve Spacious semi-furand will without nished Supervision.

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION 2019 ADM 000910 Name of Decedent, Gloria Jean Thompson.

Name and Address of Attorney Amanda Plant, 4000 Legato Road, Suite 1100, Fairfax, VA 22033. Notice of Appointment, Notice to Creditors and Notice to Unknown Heirs, Barbara Thompson Smith, whose address is 309 Park Street, Bluefield, West Virginia 24701 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Gloria Jean Thompson who died on July 20, 2019, without a Will and will serve without Court Supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 5/07/2020. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or to the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 5/07/2020, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: 11/7/2019 Name of Newspaper and/or periodical: Washington City Paper/ Daily Washington Law Reporter Name of Personal Representative: Barbara Thompson Smith TRUE TEST copy Nicole Stevens Acting Register of Wills Pub Dates: November 7, 14, 21.

William W Crocker Decedent NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS Rosemary Tate, whose address is 761 Quebec Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20010, is the personal representative

of the estate of William W. Crocker who died April 15, 2002 without a will and will serve without court supervision. All unknown heirs and whose whereabouts are unknown. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned on or before 12/26/2019 or forever be barred. Persons believed to be heirs to the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address, and relationship.

Date of first publication: 10/3/2019 Washington City Paper Rosemary Tate Personal Representative TRUE TEST COPY Nicole Stevens Acting Register of Wills

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