Waterfront Yoga, Indigenous Poetry, and a Show Memorializing George Floyd: Things to Do in DC, May 24-26
Plus: How and when DC-area theaters are reopening.
Tuesday marks one year since the murder of George Floyd.
Here’s what you should check out this week:
Lyrical lessons: Current US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo the first indigenous writer to receive that honor curated the recently published
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry. Verses from major indigenous voices including pro-basketball player-turned-poet Natalie Diaz, novelist Ray Young Bear, and activist Layli Long Soldier meditate on displacement, resistance, perseverance, and cultural preservation. Harjo will speak with authors Deborah A. Miranda and Eric Gansworth in a virtual book event from Politics and Prose. Monday 5/24 at 8 PM; register here.
Vroom adds 2 board members
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Vroom has added two members to its board of directors, both with extensive backgrounds in the financial industry.
The new members are Paula Pretlow and Frederick Terrell, and Vroom chief executive officer, Paul Hennessy describes them as “two highly qualified executives with notable leadership experience at some of the world’s largest financial institutions.”
Pretlow is former senior vice president of The Capital Group, a $2.4 trillion privately held investment management firm. At that company, she led the public fund business development and client relationship group. For 10 years, she was responsible for large client relationships.
Online Automotive Retailer Vroom Announces Two New Additions to Board of Directors
Paula B. Pretlow and Frederick O. Terrell Bring Decades of Finance and Business Experience to the Board
NEW YORK, April 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Vroom (
www.vroom.com), a leading ecommerce platform for buying and selling used vehicles, today announced that it has added two new members to its Board of Directors, Paula B. Pretlow and Frederick O. Terrell. The new members bring decades of finance and business experience to the board.
Paula Pretlow built her career helping company leaders maximize shareholder and stakeholder value personally delivering hundreds of millions in revenue and building relationships with many of the world’s largest institutional investors. She is a former Senior Vice President of The Capital Group, a $2.4 trillion privately held investment management firm, where she led the public fund business development and client relationship group and was responsible for large clie
After the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, Planet Word’s Curator of Programming Rebecca Roberts thought no one would be in the mood for the museum’s poetry event scheduled for that night. It turned out to be well attended: “I didn’t realize how deeply people want to turn to poetry for wisdom and solace and comfort in times of trauma,” she says. So when Harvard literature professor Lisa New wrote an article about the role of poetry in processing the pandemic, Roberts realized there was an opportunity […]
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