Cultural Tourism DC asked some prominent Washingtonians to share with us their favorite places or events that are special and unique to DC. 

Cultural Tourism DC asked some prominent Washingtonians to share with us their favorite places or events that are special and unique to DC.

Cultural Tourism DC asked some prominent Washingtonians to share with us their favorite places or events that are special and unique to DC

As Secretary of the District of Columbia, Cynthia Brock-Smith is the city’s Chief Protocol Officer. Her office provides public records management services to the Mayor and DC government agencies, manages the city's archives, and publishes the DC Register and municipal regulations. Ms. Brock-Smith is a native Washingtonian, Ward 7 resident and a proud Eastern High School Rambler graduate.

Cultural Tourism DC asked some prominent Washingtonians to share with us their favorite places or events that are special and unique to DC

Cultural Tourism DC asked some prominent Washingtonians to share with us their favorite places or events that are special and unique to DC.

Bob Ramin is the executive director of the National Aquarium in Washington, DC, and devoted to exploring all the sights, tastes and sounds of the Capital region.

Bob shares his top five.

Cultural Tourism DC asked some prominent Washingtonians to share with us their favorite places or events that are special and unique to DC.

Cultural Tourism DC asked some prominent Washingtonians to share with us their favorite places or events that are special and unique to DC

Cultural Tourism DC asked some prominent Washingtonians to share with us their favorite places or events that are special and unique to DC

Philip Clark is the chair of the Rainbow History Project and the editor of Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS (2010).  He spends his time wandering the streets of D.C., wondering what it would be like to have enough money to live in a row-house with a turret.

Wuiping Yap is an entrepreneur, performer, and the executive director of the Asia Heritage Foundation (AHF), an organization that seeks to share, celebrate, and promote the diversity of Asian heritage and culture through the arts, traditions, education, cuisine, and way of life represented in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area.

An activist, artist, pioneer and flamboyant personality, Margery E. Goldberg founded Zenith Gallery in 1978, and later founded Zenith Community Arts Foundation (ZCAF) in 2000, a non-profit that fosters alliances between artists, businesses and other non-profits to benefit community. As a curator and gallery owner, Goldberg’s credits include 450+ exhibits and installations, and as an artist she has created over 300 pieces of sculpted furniture and neon.