Getting to Know Doni Crawford

In our latest Hearing the Council interview, we get to know our newest At-Large Councilmember, Doni Crawford. Appointed to the Council, by the Council, she has been serving since January 20, 2026. We hear about her unsuccessful first stint in DC, returning home jobless and dejected to live with her family in Pittsburgh, before returning triumphantly to DC for an ascending career arc culminating in her Council appointment. We discuss the origin of her name, the family tragedy that informed her Council swearing-in, plus whether any of her Council colleagues are fellow Spanish language learners or tennis players. Also: pondering parliamentary piercing protocols, how exciting it is to be Sofia the First, if hot breakfast eggs taste as good as we had hoped...and--as is traditional with inaugural Hearing the Council interviewees--dessert rankings.