By Max Grossman and Carlee Brown The Southwest Fall Food Drive was a huge SUCCESS!!! Ward 6 Mutual Aid (W6MA) and Christ United Methodist Church (CUMC) would like to thank all our neighbors who generously supported the Southwest D.C. Fall Food Drive! With your help we collected over 120 large boxes of food and supplies […]
Mission Accomplished, St. Matthews Pastor Retires after Twenty-Two Years
By Matthew Koehler Pastor Phillip Huber walked into a leaky, dilapidated church for his first worship service in Southwest D.C. on April 1, 1999 – a Thursday. “I said that God had a sense of humor ever since. I’m in my 21st year of my two year commitment to St. Matthews.” His short mission turned […]
Meet SWBID Environmental Ambassador Mirna Monterroso
By Donna Purchase Southwest D.C. is “the place to be.” We continue to spotlight the dedicated staff of the SWBID who are focused on making Southwest a clean, safe, vibrant community to live, work, and visit. Mirna Monterroso Deleon came to SWBID this past September. Born in Guatemala, she loves living here in Washington, D.C. […]
A Time of Sonder
By Haleigh Pannell One of my favorite quotes of all time is “if you don’t heal what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you.” In essence, this means if you don’t address your traumas, you will inadvertently hurt people in your life that don’t deserve it. I find this to be so […]
Op-Ed: Navigating Uncertainty During the Pandemic, Looming Flu Season
By Alexis Smith The past few months have been incredibly stressful, not only on a local and national level but around the globe. I do not believe we, as a nation, were genuinely prepared for the magnitude of destruction COVID-19 could cause. Like many other citizens, I did not think when the country “shut-down” in […]
SW Mutual Aid Closes 2020 Serving the Community
By Carlee Brown and Max Grossman Ward 6 Mutual Aid (W6MA) is an all-volunteer grassroots group working with Black and Brown grassroots organizations to help keep our communities safe. The Southwest Pod of W6MA is partnering with Christ United Methodist Church (CUMC) on a community food and supply drive to serve our neighbors in response […]
Past SWNA Scholar Kirstin Jones Is Doing Amazing Things
By Peri Hamlin, with contributions by Kirstin Jones One of the first “Southwester” articles written about 2011 SWNA Scholarship recipient Kirstin Jones was in 2009. Back then, she was a young teen doing amazing things. “The Southwester” spotlighted her because she was selected as a student representative to the D.C. State Board of Education. Fast […]