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Why I'm Running
Why I'm Running
I'm running to be our ANC because, like many of you, I feel that my voice and the voices of my neighbors aren't being heard in the decisions being made about our own community. This should be a neighborhood position: one that listens to all of us and amplifies our voices to the city, especially when change is needed and isn't happening.
The issues facing our district aren't abstract to me. Not only have I heard them from neighbors who've watched them go unaddressed year after year, I've felt them myself: the same rodents terrorizing our home, walking past the same vacant buildings sitting untouched, the same worry for younger siblings walking through areas that don't always feel safe. These aren't complaints I've read about. They're concerns I've heard directly, and ones I carry myself.
If elected, I'll make it easier for residents to have a direct line to their ANC, and I'll keep our community informed on what we're facing, the good and the bad. I'll use that voice to pressure the city for the changes we need, for MPD to actually help us feel safe, work alongside our small businesses old and new, and help 2G01 keep building on everything that already makes this neighborhood great.
About Me
About Me
Hi, I'm Christian, your neighbor, and I'm honored to have the opportunity to serve 2G01.
I don't see myself as a politician. I'm not here to push forward a career in DC politics. I'm just a member of this community who walks our streets every week and sees the areas of improvement that aren't happening, and the disconnect between DC residents and the people meant to represent them. I want to close that gap, not by talking at my neighbors, but by actually being present enough to hear them, and I believe that starts long before you ever hold a title.
I don't have a political background, but I have a people background, and a genuine passion for showing up for others. I started my career in education, teaching middle and high school students, and it's where I first saw up close how much a community shapes its young people. Safe streets, real after-school programs, and visible support structures don't just help kids thrive, they build the foundation a neighborhood stands on for years to come.
While I was teaching, I also served in the Peace Corps, living in a small city in Madagascar. The sense of community there wasn't just admirable, it was something to aspire to. Even with limited resources, people were proud and vocal, and word of new initiatives still found its way through the whole town. That experience taught me that reaching a community of 2,000-plus people isn't impossible. It just takes the right tools and the will to actually try.
After teaching and the Peace Corps, I continued in public service, working with USAID on humanitarian efforts around the world, managing programs and building relationships across agencies to get real results for the people those programs were meant to serve. I want to bring that same compassion, and that same hands-on program experience, home to 2G01.
To me, the most important thing is bringing people together, not just to push for the change we deserve, but to celebrate what's already here. Shaw has a beauty and a community spirit worth highlighting, from Art All Night, a festival that got its start right here before spreading across the whole city, to the Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Neighborhood Library, currently being reinvested in for the community's future, to the small businesses, that give our streets their character, to the schools where the next generation of this neighborhood is already growing up. That pride, and the willingness to keep building on it together, is what I hope to bring to this seat.
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