2019 Grand Marshal: “Swift” Jarrett Hurd

2019 Grand Marshal: “Swift” Jarrett Hurd

Jarrett Hurd (born August 31, 1990) is an American professional boxer. He is currently a unified world light middleweight champion, having held the IBF title since 2017, and the WBA (Super) and IBO titles since 2018. As of December 2018, he is ranked as the...
2019 Grand Marshal: Kelly Harper

2019 Grand Marshal: Kelly Harper

Kelly Harper, a third-grade teacher at Amidon-Bowen Elementary School was honored with the 2019 DCPS Teacher of the Year Award by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and other District officials. Kelly Nicole Harper began her teaching career with Teach For America, teaching 3rd...
2019 Grand Marshal: Maisha Riddlesprigger

2019 Grand Marshal: Maisha Riddlesprigger

On Dec. 17, 2018, Maisha Riddlesprigger, Principal of Ketcham Elementary School was honored with the 2019 DCPS Principal of the Year Award by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and other District officials. Read The DC Line Article: Maisha Riddlesprigger: What it really means...
2019 Grand Marshal: Charnice Milton

2019 Grand Marshal: Charnice Milton

On the night of May 27th, Charnice Milton, a twenty-seven-year-old journalist, was heading home from an assignment. She’d stopped to transfer buses in Anacostia, in Washington, D.C., after covering a neighborhood meeting for a Capitol Hill paper called the Hill Rag....
2019 Grand Marshal: Rev. Moses Williams

2019 Grand Marshal: Rev. Moses Williams

Reverend Moses Williams, beloved Community Leader, Civil Rights Activist and Gospel Singer has served for over 55 years at Campbell AME Church, Washington, DC. He started there as a member in 1963, ordained as a minister in 1973, became an assistant pastor and he is...
2019 Grand Marshal: Diane Groomes

2019 Grand Marshal: Diane Groomes

Diane Groomes currently is employed as the Director of Security and Public Safety, for the District Wharf- SW Waterfront.  She joined the District Wharf after serving 27 years with the Metropolitan Police Department – Washington DC. Ten of those years were as the...