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Representatives

Brookland is covered by 7 Single Member Districts in 3 Advisory Neighborhood Commissions. Each district elects one unpaid commissioner, your closest elected official.

Your commissioners

7 SMDs · 3 ANCs
3
Advisory Neighborhood Commissions
7
Single Member Districts
0
vacant seats
ANC 5A · 1 SMDANC 5A site ↗
  • 5A04Jack Hermes
ANC 5B · 5 SMDsANC 5B site ↗
  • 5B02Nandini Sen
  • 5B03Jingwen Sun
  • 5B04Ra Amin
  • 5B05Monica Martinez Lopez
  • 5B06Maya Vizvary
ANC 5F · 1 SMDANC 5F site ↗
  • 5F02Aru Sahni

Some of these districts may reach beyond the Brookland boundary. Names of elected officials are public record.

Find your district

Your Single Member District depends on your exact address. DC's ANC office has a lookup that returns your district and commissioner.

Look up your SMD by address anc.dc.gov ↗

Next ANC meetings

No meeting notice posted yet for the next 30 days. ANCs usually post a week or two ahead.

ANC Decoder: what's on the table

1 posts · 6 months
  1. Work Scheduled (John McCormack Rd, from Brookland Metro to the near the Ft. Totten Trash Transfer Station)Other ANC 5A · Oct 13

ANC 5B and ANC 5F don't publish a feed we can read, so only ANC 5A is decoded here.

What the topics mean

Each post is tagged by topic once there are posts to read.

Recent meeting notices

DC Office of ANCs

DC's ANC office posts a notice for each public meeting, often with the recording. We started collecting them for Brookland's ANCs (ANC 5B, ANC 5F, ANC 5A) on Oct 31, 2026; they'll collect here.

What an ANC does

An Advisory Neighborhood Commission is the most local level of DC government. The city is split into ANCs, and each ANC into small Single Member Districts. Every district elects one commissioner. Commissioners are unpaid neighbors.

ANCs don't make final decisions. They vote on positions and send them to DC agencies, which by law must give those positions "great weight": the agency has to respond to the ANC's concerns in writing when it decides.

Where ANCs weigh in
  • ZoningVariances, special exceptions and new development before the zoning boards
  • Liquor licensesNew bars, restaurants and stores, and changes to their hours
  • Public spaceSidewalk cafes, driveways, curb cuts and anything built in the public right of way
  • PermitsBuilding, historic preservation and other city permits that affect the neighborhood
See the permits issued in Brookland this month Projects →