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After six years covering Capitol Hill for a Los Angeles public radio station, Kitty Felde found a way to branch out to a new audience: middle schoolers. Once a month on her talk show, adults would be “thrown out” and students would come to…

For DC tour guides accustomed to sharing details about the White House, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial with visitors to the nation’s capital without much knowledge of local DC and its history, Cultural Tourism DC’s annual…

As the Earth Day Network looks ahead to next year’s 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the event’s mission has remained a constant — "to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide." That same mantra planted a lifelong…

Though Krista Schlyer’s work as a conservation photographer and writer has taken her all over the country and into Mexico, in recent years she’s been focused on a landmark closer to home: the Anacostia River. Schlyer, who lives in Mount…

Maisha Riddlesprigger, this year’s DC Public Schools Principal of the Year, never set out for a career in education. Although she grew up among a family of teachers in Fresno, California — where her father was a professor at a community…

For Denise Rolark Barnes, the publisher of The Washington Informer, operating the newspaper is family business. When asked if she ever thought she’d be where she is today, she said, “Let’s put it this way — yes, I did. Did I want to be…

Yesim Sayin Taylor never thought she’d work in DC government. Admittedly, she didn’t know much about it. “I just thought it was this crazy, dysfunctional place,” she said. An economist, Taylor came to the United States — and the…

In so many ways Pat McGuire feels her career has been a series of “well-managed coincidences.” A lawyer by training, she never aspired to be a college president. But, this year, McGuire is celebrating her 30th year as president of Trinity…

Teaching math classes at DC’s Eastern High, Kareem Farah realized a while ago the traditional mode of instruction — delivering lectures and hoping all students would advance at the same pace — wasn’t working for the diverse range of…

Local nonprofit Fair Chance builds up other community-based groups to achieve positive, life-changing results for local youth living in poverty, and it’s reviewing applications received by today's deadline for its next set of partners.…

It was in high school that Paul Scanlan stumbled into the notion that he was good at acting — a realization that has paid off. Scanlan, who grew up in Olney, Md., and attended Catholic University, is back home through the holidays as part…

After two decades, Karla still recalls traveling through the desert with her brother and aunt in 1998 on their way from El Salvador, reliant on a “coyote” to get the three of them where they needed to go. Her mother was already in…

Chevy Chase DC resident Elizabeth Workman has turned her 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector into a family affair that’s helping neighbors rid themselves of unwanted items for the benefit of people in need. Workman spent 10…

The American City Diner has closed its doors after operating for three decades as an iconic destination on Connecticut Avenue NW. Steve Salis, the owner of Kramerbooks & Afterwords and Ted’s Bulletin, is taking over the diner space,…

The U.S. may not have made it to the World Cup this year, but nine DC high schoolers did. The students — all of whom have experienced or been at risk for homelessness — were honored by the DC Council last week for their participation in the…

Founded in 1989 as the nation’s first “community kitchen,” DC Central Kitchen uses food as a tool to build better communities. Each year it serves millions of meals to those in need and trains for culinary careers men and women who have had…