Holly Jones
Holly Jones serves as president of the board and CEO. She is a graduate of Smith College and Stanford University . She writes the "Dispatches from the Anacostia" column for McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Other articles about the District have appeared in the Hill Rag and East of the River newspapers. She works as a national director at Jones Lang LaSalle and has served in the roles of president and vice-president of chapters for the non-profit industry organization, CoreNet Global.
Matthew Klam
Matthew Klam is a visiting Associate Professor at Stony Brook Southampton, and the author of Sam The Cat, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and a Whiting Writer's Award, and is a GQ Magazine Correspondent.
E. Ethelbert Miller
E. Ethelbert Miller is board chair of the Institute for Policy Studies and the director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University. His most recent book is The 5th Inning, a memoir published by Busboys and Poets.
Joe Peters
Joe Peters has been a part of Capitol Letters since its inception, and currently serves as the Treasurer for the organization. He is a graduate of the University of Texas and Georgetown University and has worked as an analyst and project manager for both the private and public sector. He currently runs a startup venture called Public Performance Systems and has volunteered in tutoring and education projects in the District since moving here in 2003.
Marcela Sanchez
One of Washington 's most prominent journalists following Latin American and Latino affairs, Marcela Sánchez writes a weekly column, available in English and Spanish via The New York Times Syndicate. For more than ten years, Sanchez worked at The Washington Post where she also did daily reports for the local Univision newscast.
Susan Shreve
Susan Shreve is the author of fourteen novels, most recently A Student of Living Things (Viking), a memoir, and Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR’s Polio Haven (Houghton Mifflin 2007). She has written twenty-nine books for children, with her next being The Lovely Shoes (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic.) Susan is also the editor or co-editor of five anthologies, including Dream Me Home Safely. She founded the Master of Fine Arts Degree at George Mason University where she is a Professor of English, and is former President and present Co-Chairman of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Susan has received numerous awards; among them, a Guggenheim Award for Fiction, a National Endowment for the Arts grant for Fiction, and the Service award from Poets and Writers. She has taught in the MFA programs at Columbia School of the Arts and Princeton University.
Andrea Timko Weiswasser
In 1979, Ms. Weiswasser joined the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering where she practiced law as an associate until 1985, as a partner until 1995, and as counsel until 2000. Her practice focused on regulatory matters, particularly in the areas of communications and environmental law. Since her retirement from the practice of law, Ms. Weiswasser has been actively involved in non-profit board service. From 1993-2005, she served on the Boards of Trustees of The National Child Research Center; Beauvoir, The National Cathedral Elementary School; The D.C. Humanities Council; The National Poison Control Center; The Washington Chamber Symphony; and The Appleseed Foundation. Ms. Weiswasser is currently a member of the Boards of Trustees of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and The Levine School of Music.
