ANC5E04 Campaign Update: Unofficial Results!

While the votes are still being counted, I am confident that my lead will hold and come January, I’m going to be the next Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner to represent our neighborhood! 

First, I want to thank the voters of 5E04. I really am at a loss here to fully express how honored I am by your support, but try I shall. 

When I started this campaign to be the Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner for 5E04, I vowed to knock on every door in our Single Member District—and I am proud that we made that happen. Your concerns and feedback helped inform my priorities for the neighborhood, and will continue doing so. I’m doubly committed to bringing about much-needed and overdue changes, and finding solutions to existing problems so that our neighborhood continues to be the inclusive, thriving community that it already is. And I’ll be back knocking doors after Thanksgiving to start — with your input — working on our immediate next steps to push on priority #1: safer streets. 

I’d like to take a minute to give a special shoutout to some Bloomingdale and Edgewood neighbors (this is not a complete list and apologies in advance for anyone I missed, it is the lack of sleep!): Emily Thomas, Sam Bonar, Brianna McGowan, Serita Sanders, Roger Fisk, Dana King, Nadia Stevens, Eve Wang, Melanie Newman, Camille Bryan, Ben Levine, Ty Cobb, Greg Fuller, Nick Sementelli, and Conor Shaw. Sending much love to my wonderful neighbors in the Parker, Gage and Flagler buildings, who rallied together to get signatures so I could be on the ballot, lent moral support, and voted!

A special shout-out to our neighbors in LeDroit Park: David Lasker and ANC commissioner Larry Handerhan, as well as my wonderful counterparts in the LeDroit Park Community Garden executive committee. 

I’d also like to thank the amazing fellow ANC candidates — some of whom won on Tuesday! — for all their support and guidance: VJ Kapur, Nicole McEntee, Aru Sahini, Michele Keegan, Jen Anderson, Joe Bishop-Henchman, Colleen Costello — to name a few. And I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank Zach Ammerman, who designed the wonderful artwork for my campaign, free of charge. 

Erin Palmer — you are the model of the dedicated DC public servant. Thank you for your endorsement, encouragement and support. 

Thank you to Zachary Parker who will be a fantastic Council member for Ward 5 —  your guidance so early into my campaign is much appreciated.

And a huge thank you to Greater Greater Washington and DC Voters for Animals for their endorsements of my candidacy, and to Alex Baca at GGW for organizing an ANC candidate learning session that helped me decide to run for office!

Thank you to everyone who donated money, time, and energy. 

And last but not the least: thank you to my beloved family and my friends. I couldn’t have done this without you.