Fellow Ward 6 Democrats, Happy New Year! With the approval of two coronavirus vaccines to date (and hopefully more to come), we have a...

A little more than two weeks ago, we launched a new group: Young Dems of Ward 6 (YDW6), for Democrats in Ward 6 age 36 and under.

Perhaps the most important volunteer activity we undertake is our GOTV (Get Out The Vote) work, helping elect Democrats up and down the...

October’s Woman of Ward 6 is Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, who is now in her 15th term as the congresswoman for the District of...

September’s Woman of Ward 6 is Roberta Flack, a singer-songwriter, who got her start at Capitol Hill’s Mr. Henry’s Restaurant. She’s...

June’s Woman of Ward 6 is Diana McLellan, who was a self-described “jolly pariah” whose Washington gossip column the Ear became a...

May’s Woman of Ward 6 is Emily Edson Briggs, who won renown by writing a colorful irreverent newspaper column in the mid to late 1880’s...

April’s Women of Ward 6 is the Furies Collective house, a row house at 219 11th Street SE. This house is directly connected with the...

March’s Woman of Ward 6 is Bonny Wolf, an accomplished food writer, who lives on Capitol Hill. You may have heard her on NPR’s Weekend...

February’s Woman of Ward 6 is Sharon Ambrose, a no-nonsense proponent of economic development projects, such as the construction of...

January’s Woman of Ward 6 is Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, a prominent multi-millionaire American socialite and a major figure in the American...

November’s Woman of Ward 6 is Ruth Rappaport, a Capitol Hill resident who had a remarkable life and career as a librarian. Rapport’s life...

October’s Woman of Ward 6 is Veola M. Jackson, a dynamic educator who was the first principal of the Capitol Hill Cluster Schools...

September's Woman of Ward 6 is Coralie Farlee, a long-time Southwest DC resident whose professional career and voluntary contributions...

This month the Ward 6 Dems are honoring Jackie Von Schlegel (1939-2016) as June's Woman of Ward 6. Jackie Felty Von Schlegel was a...

Not many Capitol Hill women have a building named after them, but Elizabeth Morrison Haines does. She built the large grey building that...

Ward 6 Democrats are continuing our recognition of the Woman of Ward 6 by honoring Winifred Mallon (1880-1954), an early Washington, DC,...

March is Women’s History Month and Ward 6 Democrats are continuing their recognition of Women in Ward 6 by honoring Ruth Ann Overbeck, a...

Nadine Winter (1924-2011) was an urban-housing activist who was one of the original members of the Council of the District of Columbia...

Alva Belmont (1853-1933) was a prominent multi-millionaire American socialite who used her fortune to advance the women’s rights movement...