Bowser taps officials to oversee D.C. homelessness, health, juvenile justice
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Mayor-elect Muriel E. Bowser on Monday appointed a trio of officials with ties to the administration of former mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) to lead key D.C. social service agencies.
To direct the Department of Human Services, Bowser (D) is tapping Laura Green Zeilinger, who was deputy director of that agency during the Fenty administration and serves as executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.
“Now is the right time to make meaningful change locally, and I really wanted to be part of that,” Zeilinger said after a news conference announcing her appointment. The announcement was made at Miriam’s Kitchen, a Foggy Bottom nonprofit that serves the homeless.