WASHINGTON – The 2019-2020 Gwendolyn S. and Colbert I. King Endowed Chair in Public Policy Lecture Series welcomes Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser for the latest installment of its virtual series under the direction of veteran political strategist and author Donna Brazile as the Gwendolyn S. and Colbert I. King Endowed Chair in Public Policy. 

On Thursday, April 23 at 12:15 p.m., Mayor Bowser will join Brazile for a conversation on the District’s response the COVID-19 pandemic. In coordination with WHUT-Howard University Television and WHUR 96.3 FM, the King Lecture Series can be viewed via livestream at https://www.whut.org/home/klsmayorbowser/. All students, faculty and staff are invited to continue the conversation on social media, using the hashtag, #KingLectureSeries.  

In 2018, Muriel Bowser became the first woman ever re-elected as the Mayor of Washington, D.C. and the first mayor to earn a second term in 16 years. Since taking office in 2015, the Mayor has taken bold steps to reset D.C.’s global and national competitiveness, speed up affordable housing production, diversify the D.C. economy, increase satisfaction in city services, and invest in programs and policies that allow more families to live and thrive in D.C. Before being elected as Mayor, Bowser served as the Ward 4 Councilmember on the Council of the District of Columbia – first elected in a special election in 2007 and re-elected in 2008 and 2012. 

For those interested in watching, but unable to join the livestream, the conversation will broadcast on WHUT on Saturday, April 25 at 6:30 p.m. and later posted to whut.org and whur.com. 

Since 2008, the Gwendolyn S. and Colbert I. King Endowed Chair in Public Policy Lecture Series has provided students access to experienced, senior public service executives who have developed and advanced public policy initiatives. For more information, contact kinglectureseries@howard.edu. 

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