Who We Are

The Hill Center plan is the work of the Old Naval Hospital Foundation, a broad coalition of Capitol Hill neighbors committed to seeing this landmark property fully restored and kept in community use. We are governed by an all-volunteer board of directors and will hire a professional staff to manage the Center’s operation.

Our Board of Directors
Our board members have deep and longstanding ties to the Capitol Hill community. All serve on a volunteer basis.

Sharon Ambrose served as Ward 6 Councilmember from 1997 until her retirement in 2007.  She has lived on Capitol Hill since 1969.

Jeanie Lee Boehmler has an extensive background in education programs and non-profit management. A former teacher, she currently serves as Director of Education Initiatives for Fight for Children, promoting and rewarding best practices in the education of low-income children.

Michael Canning is a retired Foreign Service Officer who has resided on Capitol Hill for 45 years. In retirement he has been active in a variety of Hill organizations, including serving as a board member for the Capitol Hill Village and the Capitol Hill Restoration Society.

Nicky Cymrot, our foundation president, also heads the Capitol Hill Community Foundation. She has been engaged in residential and commercial real estate investment, construction and management on Capitol Hill for more than thirty years.

Steve Cymrot is the founding president and a current board member of the Capitol Hill Community Foundation. He also is the founding president of the Capitol Hill Association of Merchants and Professionals (CHAMPS).

John Franzén ran a political media consulting business on Capitol Hill for thirty years and serves now as a Senior Communications Officer at the Pew Charitable Trusts. A resident of the neighborhood since 1973, he is the founding chairman of the Ruth Ann Overbeck Capitol Hill History Project.

Rosemary Freeman is a public affairs consultant and former principal at the law firm of DLA Piper. She has worked in the media, as press secretary to a congressman and a governor, and as a communications advisor to businesses and non-profits.

Betty Ann Kane served our community for twelve years as a member of the DC City Council and for four years on the DC Board of Education. She served as Executive Director of the DC Retirement Board and now chairs the DC Public Service Commission.

Guy Martin has been an active member of our community for more than thirty years, heading fundraising efforts for Peabody School, Capitol Hill Day School and the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. A former Assistant Secretary of the Interior, he is now a partner at Perkins Coie.

Jennifer Moyer is the Chief Financial Officer of Alarm.com. Formerly, she held various finance and general management positions with The Washington Post Company, and was an auditor with Price Waterhouse.

Donna Scheeder is Deputy Chief Information Officer for the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress and is a widely respected expert on libraries and information systems. A longtime Capitol Hill resident, she has served as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner and since 2004 has served as Chair of the Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee.

Jamie Sledge is Chief Judge of Copyright Royalty Judges. He serves on the vestry of Christ Church-Washington Parish. He is a former chair of Alabama state Council on the Arts, board member of Southern Arts Federation and Alabama Symphony Orchestra and founder of Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsden, Alabama.

Hal Wackman was a division leader for industrial, energy and infrastructure projects during his 28 years at the World Bank. He worked in numerous countries in Asia, Africa and Europe and served as Country Director in Kenya. He now consults for the World Bank and sits on a number of non-profit boards.

Bonny Wolf is a Capitol Hill writer and editor. She was chief speechwriter for former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman and does commentaries now for National Public Radio.