Upcoming Speakers
May 1st 2024 at 12:30 pm
In-Person/Hybrid Washington DC Weekly Club Meeting
Downtown Revitalization and The Work of The Foundation
Rachel Rose Hartman is the founding Executive Director of the Downtown DC Foundation, which serves and celebrates the DowntownDC community. Since May 2019, Rachel has created and led this new organization to effectively support homeless services, parks and public spaces and events and programming efforts in DowntownDC.
Rachel previously worked for five years at the DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID), where she rose to lead all marketing and communications efforts as the Director of Interactive Marketing & Communications. In that role, Rachel created a robust summer event program from the ground up, established new partnerships and sponsorships in the public and private sectors and increased awareness and communications for the organization and its stakeholders through coordinated PR, marketing and communications plans.
Rachel joined the BID after 10 years in political journalism, including working as White House Reporter for Yahoo News. Previously, she served as a national political blogger for Yahoo News, and covered politics and down ballot federal races for Congressional Quarterly.
Rachel was awarded an Emerging Leader Fellowship from the International Downtown Association in 2017. She currently serves as Vice Chair of the board of directors for the National Cherry Blossom Festival. Rachel holds a B.A. in print journalism from American University. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and two sons.
In-Person/Hybrid Washington DC Weekly Club Meeting
Downtown Revitalization and The Work of The Foundation
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Rachel Rose Hartman is the founding Executive Director of the Downtown DC Foundation, which serves and celebrates the DowntownDC community. Since May 2019, Rachel has created and led this new organization to effectively support homeless services, parks and public spaces and events and programming efforts in DowntownDC.
Rachel previously worked for five years at the DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID), where she rose to lead all marketing and communications efforts as the Director of Interactive Marketing & Communications. In that role, Rachel created a robust summer event program from the ground up, established new partnerships and sponsorships in the public and private sectors and increased awareness and communications for the organization and its stakeholders through coordinated PR, marketing and communications plans.
Rachel joined the BID after 10 years in political journalism, including working as White House Reporter for Yahoo News. Previously, she served as a national political blogger for Yahoo News, and covered politics and down ballot federal races for Congressional Quarterly.
Rachel was awarded an Emerging Leader Fellowship from the International Downtown Association in 2017. She currently serves as Vice Chair of the board of directors for the National Cherry Blossom Festival. Rachel holds a B.A. in print journalism from American University. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and two sons.
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Speaker: Rachel Hartman
Topic: Downtown revitalization and the work of the Foundation
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Speaker: David Heiber
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