Adrienne Terrell Washington Journalist / Educator

Adrienne Terrell Washington

Journalist / Educator

Alexandria native Adrienne Terrell Washington is an award-winning journalist, television and radio commentator, and college professor known for her columns that focus on public policy issues, particularly socioeconomic injustices towards women and minorities.  As the director of the Fort Ward and Seminary African American Descendants Society, Washington is leading an effort to preserve, document and create a historical record of a forgotten pre-Civil War African American community.