Get ready to sprinkle some joy aRound 🍩✨ Our next ride is going to throw this town for a loop, riding in circles till we’re dizzy with FUNfetti. Come dressed in your most colorful, sprinkle-covered, donut-inspired fits. Life is all about cycles, after all 💫
Wednesday May 13, 2026
DuPont circle fountain
Sound Bike Mesh Network Hack Partiers - Meet-Up: 6:30pm (we’re going to mesh that ride with this 🍩ne!)
All 🎉 Other Partiers: 7:30pm
every🍩ne Wheels-UP: 8:00pm
🙏thank you to @lilydotroxanne for lending your talents to creating this awes🍩me flyer!
And that’s a Wrap!🎬
During @dcclimateweek , our OEDP Team hosted a variety of events.
🛠️OEDP and our colleagues at EPIC led the PEDP Building Better EJ Tools Workshop, hosted at the International Student House (big thanks to them for welcoming us to their beautiful space). For this workshop, we brought together people who helped build tools like EJScreen and CEJST, people who use them, and people thinking deeply about what environmental data tools should look like going forward. Together we reimagined what these tools could be and where the data to power them could come from.
⚠️We also co-hosted a continuation of our Future of Open Environmental Data Infrastructure workshop from September. One of the sprint groups that emerged from that convening wanted to dig into the real harms that have resulted from data being lost or access to tools being removed — and to identify the stories that come out of that and what they mean for advocacy, policy, and potential legal action.
We’re grateful to everyone who joined us in these conversations and to the cutest dog who happened to walk by during our photo (Slide 7).
#DCClimateWeek #EnvironmentalData #EnvironmentalJustice #Advocacy
Everyone in the African diaspora has something to give beyond remittances. They can translate and mobilize market access, knowledge, networks, and credibility.
That was one of the most resonant moments of last week’s forum, and it echoes the conviction behind the launch of Graft Africa’s Communities of Knowledge & Practice.
Two interlinked communities: one for practitioners, investors, founders, and leaders actively building in Africa’s agri-food systems. One for scholars and researchers whose work shapes how those systems are understood and invested in. Both selective. Both designed to work in concert to turn expertise that circulates in silos into a mechanism that compounds value and impact.
Membership is by nomination. If that’s you or someone you know, the form is in our bio.
📷: @thuy.doesthings
#CommonGrounds #CommunityCollaboration #DCCW2026 ##AfricanDiaspora
Last week, we celebrated Earth Week in and out of the studio. Here’s the recap ↩️
1. As part of @dcclimateweek we organized “Two Wheels, One Planet: Touring Sustainable DC”, a bike tour exploring some of DC’s notable and celebrated examples of sustainable architecture including three of our own projects (John Lewis ES, Reservoir District, and The Wharf)
2. Staff participated in a planting and repotting happy hour, held outside on the terrace.
3. Principal Barbara Mullenex spoke at @dcchamber Earth Day Event.
4. We hosted Clink & Link—our networking event for young professionals—as part of @dcclimateweek
5. @seventhreeonestudios visited our studio for a Lunch & Learn session.
6.Senior Associate Juan Guarin co-hosted a tour of @americanuniversity Meltzer Center & Sports Center Annex (SCAN), set to become the first NZE-certified college athletic facility in the country.
7.Christian Calleri and Tamanna Tiku, spoke on a panel titled “DC Urban Transit” as part of @dcclimateweek where they shared what it means to design a healthy and climate-resilient city.
We’re still sitting with last week’s conversation. Two things we can’t stop thinking about:
The diaspora’s most catalytic role may not be deploying its own capital - it may be unlocking the $4 trillion in African institutional capital that currently leaves the continent. Knowledge and contextual intelligence are the bridge.
Moreover, before capital can work for women entrepreneurs, the conditions that allow them to show up and absorb it have to exist. Mentorship. Advisory relationships. People who understand the cultural and personal realities that shape how businesses are actually built. That is the foundation.
Full conversation on YouTube. Link in bio.
📷: @thuy.doesthings
#CommonGrounds #DCClimateWeek #DCCW2026 #DiasporaInvestment #AgriFood
The diaspora capital conversation nobody is having happened last Wednesday in Washington, DC.
At our first in-person Common Grounds forum during DC Climate Week, we asked what it would actually take to mobilize diaspora capital and capability toward Africa’s agri-food systems. Not remittance redirection. The fuller, harder question.
What we heard from investors, practitioners, researchers, and diaspora leaders:
💡Trust is the binding constraint, not capital.
💡Domestic risk mis-perception is as large a barrier as foreign risk aversion.
💡The $4 trillion in African institutional capital that leaves the continent may be the bigger lever that diaspora capital can push to unlock.
💡And before any of this works for women entrepreneurs, the conditions that allow them to show up, absorb, and deploy investment have to exist first.
The recording is now live and you should watch it and share it with your community. Link in bio.
📷: @thuy.doesthings
#CommonGrounds #DCClimateWeek #DCCW2026 #DiasporaInvestment #agrifood
Final day of Future Food Week 2026.
End the week with something exceptional.
Across the DMV, chefs have been showcasing what climate-friendly, plant-forward dining can truly be and these restaurants take that experience even further.
* Oyster Oyster
* Equinox on 19th
* Elizabeth’s
Thoughtful, refined, and deeply satisfying, these are meals meant to be experienced.
Last chance to explore: futurefoodweek.com
Last night’s talk at @pandpwharf was one of those incredible, positive life moments I’ll remember forever. Thrilled with how engaged the standing-room-only crowd was. And thankful to my good friend + talented DC journalist @nihalism for his expert moderating.
What a day. What a week. Thank you to everyone who has shown me such support and love with my book launch!
@politicsprose@dcclimateweek #dccw #dcclimateweek
As we lovingly seek to decolonize the climate sector, and restore the land, indigenous people, and other marginalized people disproportionately affected by capitalism - let us remember that the origins of the first Earth Day was based in the civil rights movement.
Sending hope for change to this past DC Climate Week.
@dcclimateweek@lovestoriesvintage@ur_0bsessed@chessjakobs
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🌿I’m currently putting the finishing touches on a free reflection tool to help you connect with your higher Self though a decolonized healing lens. Stay tuned!
In the meantime, follow me @morgannevjourney for more decolonized holistic mental health content with intuitive depth.
🦋🌿 If you’re looking for 1:1 support, I offer Concierge Integrative Holistic Therapy and Intuitive Healing Sessions.
Book a free 15-minute consultation to chat about how I can support you in your journey (link in bio)
#decolonizeyourmind #HealingFromTrauma #intersectionalhealing #holistichealing #collectivehealing
Hey Fam! Thunderstorms look likely. We’re going to find another date to do this ride or maybe loop it into our May ride if we can. TBD! Hope you have a WonderFull Friday night and party with you soon!
Thank you @dcclimateweek and @yourclimatecareercoach for another great forest bathing walk at Dumbarton Oaks! Let’s do it again next year?? 🤞🏼🌱🤞🏼
#dcclimateweek #forestbathing #dumbartonoaks #nature #dc #optoutside #mindful
