An Evening with LGBTQ+ Heroes: February
Capital Pride Alliance in partnership with Team Rayceen Production and the 50th Anniversary subcommittee of World Pride 2025 presents “An Evening with Heroes”.
The Capital Pride Alliance is celebrating 50 years of pride in our nation’s capital. As part of that celebration, we want to highlight some of the organizers in our community who have received an honor from our organization or made outstanding contributions to pride in Washington DC.
This panel features heroes who have served as Director of the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ affairs in the District of Columbia.
In-Person Registration (coming soon!)
Date: February 12, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm
Panelists:
Japer Bowles, Director, Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs.
Christopher Dyer, Co-Founder Youth Pride Day and Wanda Alston Foundation.
Rev Darlene M. Nipper, Chief Executive Officer, Rockwood Leadership Institute.
Sheila Alexander–Reid, Executive Director, PHL Diversity, A division of the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau
Jeffrey Richardson, Founder & Managing Director, We the People Community Health Worker Corps & Coalition
Sterling Washington, Stewardship Manager at UNCF
Moderators:
Rayceen Pendarvis, Empress of Pride and Goddess of DC.
Ashley Elliott, Psy.D. (Dr. Vivid), Doctor of Clinical Psychology and practitioner
