She’s the proposer of Initiative 83, the ranked-choice-voting measure that will appear on the DC ballot this fall.
Tara Prakash
The Sidwell Friends student has been named Maryland’s first-ever youth poet laureate.
Norah O’Donnell
After the election, the CBS Evening News anchor will take a new job at the network doing interviews and reporting.
Cristeta Comerford
The longtime White House chef recently retired.
Disinvited! Paul Dans
He parted ways with the Heritage Foundation after his Project 2025 caused an uproar.
This article appears in the September 2024 issue of Washingtonian. Photograph of Lee by Nora Elmubarak. Photograph of Prakash by Chlo’e Edwards from Words Beats & Life. Photograph of Comerford by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Photograph of O’Donnell by Michele Crowe/CBS. Photograph of Dans by C-SPAN.
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Milton C.Lee Jr.
He’ll be DC Superior Court’s new chief judge.
Lisa D.T. Rice
She’s the proposer of Initiative 83, the ranked-choice-voting measure that will appear on the DC ballot this fall.
Tara Prakash
The Sidwell Friends student has been named Maryland’s first-ever youth poet laureate.
Norah O’Donnell
After the election, the CBS Evening News anchor will take a new job at the network doing interviews and reporting.
Cristeta Comerford
The longtime White House chef recently retired.
Disinvited! Paul Dans
He parted ways with the Heritage Foundation after his Project 2025 caused an uproar.
This article appears in the September 2024 issue of Washingtonian.
Photograph of Lee by Nora Elmubarak.
Photograph of Prakash by Chlo’e Edwards from Words Beats & Life.
Photograph of Comerford by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
Photograph of O’Donnell by Michele Crowe/CBS.
Photograph of Dans by C-SPAN.
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