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Let's build a bigger table.

Last year, Connected DMV and its regional partners created the organization’s COVID-19 Strategic Renewal Task Force that brought the region together with a mission of improving the long-term social, physical, and digital infrastructures for inclusive economic growth and renewal across the entire DMV region.

 

What the strategic initiatives and the last year of collaboration by the Task Force has revealed is that this kind of cross-sector, co-equal collaboration works. As such, the Task Force has agreed to make this model sustainable and transition to a new body called the DMV Regional Congress. Its role will be to serve as an enduring body in the region, representing academia, industry, the public sector, community, and philanthropy and ensure that all representatives have a co-equal seat at the table to continue the work already underway to bring further economic renewal and social equity to the region, as well as considering and approving new initiatives to solve some of the region’s greatest challenges.

Members of the Regional Congress represent a cross-jurisdictional group of leaders in academia, community and philanthropy, industry, and the public sector. Keep scrolling to learn more about them.

ACADEMIA

COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

INDUSTRY

PUBLIC SECTOR

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ACADEMIA

Allison Fansler

K-12 Advisor

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ACADEMIA

Dr. Andrew Flagel

President & CEO

Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area

(Ex Officio)

Academia

ACADEMIA

Dr. Wayne Frederick

President

Howard University

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ACADEMIA

Dr. Anne M. Kress

President

Northern Virginia Community College

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ACADEMIA

Ronald Mason, Jr.

President

The University of the District of Columbia

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ACADEMIA

Dr. Darryll J. Pines

President

University of Maryland

ACADEMIA

Dr. Gregory Washington

President

George Mason University

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ACADEMIA

President

Prince George’s Community College

Dr. Falecia D. Williams

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COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

Rosie
Allen-Herring

 President & CEO

United Way of the National Capital Area

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COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

Rich Bendis

President & CEO

BioHealth Innovation

Community and Philanthropy

COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

David Bowers

VP & Mid-Atlantic Market Leader

Enterprise Community Partners

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COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

President & CEO

The Economic Club of Washington, D.C.

Mary Brady

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COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

Bob Buchanan

Principal

Buchanan Partners 

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COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

Carol Thompson Cole

President & CEO

Venture Philanthropy Partners

COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

President & CEO

Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce

Julie Coons

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COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

President & CEO

Leadership Greater Washington

Doug Duncan

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COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

Ed Grenier

President & CEO

Junior Achievement of Greater Washington

COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

President

The Brookings Institution

Amy Liu

COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

Jack McDougle

President & CEO

Greater Washington Board of Trade

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COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

President & CEO

Goodwill of Greater Washington 

Catherine Meloy

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COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

Radha Muthiah

President & CEO

Capital Area Food Bank

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COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

President

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Deborah Rutter

COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

Kelly Schulz

CEO

Maryland Tech Council

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COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

Stu Solomon

President & CEO

Connected DMV

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COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

Jennifer Taylor

President & CEO

Northern Virginia Technology Council

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COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

Tonia Wellons

President & CEO

Greater Washington Community Foundation

INDUSTRY

Senior Vice President, Strategy & Innovation

WGL Holdings Inc.

Mallik Angalakudati

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INDUSTRY

Sameer Bhargava

Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Clark Construction

Industry

COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

Mieka Wick

Executive Director

The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation

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COMMUNITY & PHILANTHROPY

Hon. Anthony Williams

CEO & Executive Director

Federal City Council

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INDUSTRY

Jeremy Blank

Greater Washington  Managing Partner

Deloitte

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INDUSTRY

Group President of the Americas

Marriott

Liam Brown

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INDUSTRY

Member at Large

KPMG

(retired)

Jerry Carlson

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INDUSTRY

Independent Consultant

James Cook

INDUSTRY

Jill DeGraff

Managing Member

Aperture Law Group

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INDUSTRY

James W. Dyke Jr.

Sr. Advisor,

State Government Relations

McGuireWoods Consulting

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INDUSTRY

President & CEO

Destination DC

Elliott Ferguson

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INDUSTRY

Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer

AARP

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INDUSTRY

Nora Gardner

Managing Partner, Washington DC

McKinsey & Company

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Tim Gillis

INDUSTRY

Chesapeake Market Hub Leader & Office Managing Partner

KPMG

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INDUSTRY

Jermaine Johnson

Regional President, Greater Washington and Virginia

PNC Financial Services Group

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INDUSTRY

Brian Kenner

Head of HQ2 Policy & Economic Development

Amazon

INDUSTRY

President & Managing Director of Operations

APCO Worldwide

Evan Kraus

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INDUSTRY

Evelyn Lee

Greater Washington Regional President

Truist

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INDUSTRY

Tony Lewis

Region Vice President, Public Policy

Verizon

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INDUSTRY

President & CEO

Children's National Hospital

Kurt Newman

INDUSTRY

Rodney Oddoye

Senior Vice President-Governmental, Regulatory & External Affairs

Pepco Holdings

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INDUSTRY

 Market President & Publisher

Washington Business Journal

Alex Orfinger

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INDUSTRY

Delbert Parks

Vice President & Site Executive

Micron Technology

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INDUSTRY

Carla Grant Pickens

Global Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer

 IBM

INDUSTRY

Evan Regan-Levine

Executive Vice President

JBG SMITH

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INDUSTRY

Partner

K&L Gates

Manny Rouvelas

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INDUSTRY

Ruth
Williams-Brinkley

 Regional President,

Mid-Atlantic States

Kaiser Permanente

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PUBLIC SECTOR

Dr. C. Anneta Arno

Director,

Office of Health Equity

DC Health

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PUBLIC SECTOR

Glenn Blanchette

Regional Emergency Coordinator

US Department of Health and Human Services

(Ex Officio)

Public Sector

PUBLIC SECTOR

Randy Clarke

General Manager & CEO

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

(Ex Officio)

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PUBLIC SECTOR

Secretary of Commerce

 State of Maryland 

(Ex Officio)

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PUBLIC SECTOR

President & CEO

Fairfax County Economic Development Authority

Victor Hoskins

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PUBLIC SECTOR

President & CEO

Prince George's County Economic Development Corporation

David Iannucci

PUBLIC SECTOR

Kim Kadesch

Director, Office of National Capital Region Coordination

Federal Emergency Management Agency

(Ex Officio)

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PUBLIC SECTOR

Eugene D. Kinlow

Director of the Office for Federal and Regional Affairs

Executive Office of the Mayor, District of Columbia

(Ex Officio)

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PUBLIC SECTOR

Clark Mercer

Executive Director Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments 

(Ex Officio)

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PUBLIC SECTOR

Caren Merrick

Secretary of Commerce & Trade, Commonwealth of Virginia

(Ex Officio)

PUBLIC SECTOR

Maj. Gen. Allan M. Pepin

Commanding General

Joint Task Force National Capital Region

(Liaison, Ex Officio)

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PUBLIC SECTOR

John E. Potter

President & CEO Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority

(Ex Officio)

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PUBLIC SECTOR

William Ryan

Regional Director

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency

(Ex Officio)

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PUBLIC SECTOR

Ricky Smith

Executive Director & CEO

BWI Marshall Airport and MDOT MAA

(Ex Officio)

PUBLIC SECTOR

President & CEO

Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation

Bill Tompkins

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