Papi Kymone Freeman is the director of the National Black LUV Festival recognized as a Washington, D.C. Mayor’s Art Award Finalist for Excellence in Service to the Arts in 2006 and received a Mayoral Proclamation in 2007. est. 1997 NBLF has since become the largest annual AIDS mobilization in WDC. Freeman has appeared alongside Mark Twain and Harriet Tubman in newspapers...
Mr. Beazley was a Minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor Governments (1983-96) holding, at various times, the portfolios of Defense, Finance, Transport and Communications, Employment Education and Training, Aviation, and Special Minister of State. He was Deputy Prime Minister (1995-96) and Leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition (1996-01 and 2005-06). Mr. Beazley...
Rik Freeman is an artist (painter, and muralist) from Athens, GA, and has been in the District since 1985. As a muralist, Rik has worked in most areas of the city, and as a curious person, he’s been to all eight wards but still finds places that are new to him. Since 2003, Rik has been a resident of the Deanwood neighborhood in Ward 7. His studio is also there. The street Rik...
With over 15 years of education and community development experience, Edmund C. Fleet serves as the Executive Director of Building Bridges Across The River, the nonprofit organization that founded The Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC) and has run its operations since the spring of 2006. THEARC is home to 11 nonprofit organizations that collaborate under the leadership...
Joy Ford Austin is the Executive Director of the Humanities Council of Washington, DC, a non-profit organization that provides grant support for community projects that enrich the lives of DC residents through the humanities disciplines. Additionally, HCWDC produces humanities programs, such as ...
Garry Curtis is President & CEO of Hager Sharp Inc., an independent, employee-owned communications firm focused on health, education and safety. When he’s not working with staff or clients, or promoting Leadership Greater Washington, Garry’s making tracks “across the pond” where his lovely partner Lisa and beautiful daughter Georgia live in London....
Pat Wheeler is the former director of marketing for Cultural Tourism DC (CTDC) and served for almost four years. She worked in a variety of marketing and communications positions for Fortune 500 companies, the mayor’s office, and the White House. Pat is a proud second-generation Washingtonian and a McKinley Tech High School graduate. While working at CTDC, she is...
Zandra Chestnut is the co-founder of the Center for Green Urbanism (CGU), a green-business incubator that houses the Tubman-Mahan Gallery in the business district of Ward 7. Zandra is also a photographer who enjoys taking photos of litter and...
Love-leigh Beasley is co-owner of Twins Jazz Club, one of DC’s premier live jazz venues, and daughter of "Twins" Kelly Tesfaye and Jos. A Beasley. A “techie” by trade, her passion for marketing and music drew her back to the family business which...
Michael Akin is President of Reingold LINK, a DC-based strategic communications and community relations firm. He proudly serves on the boards of Cultural Tourism DC and the Greater Washington Urban League. Michael and his wife Wendi live in Adams Morgan.
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H Street NE will be enhanced immeasurably by the addition of its guiding signposts of the past and point us towards the future."
