Contents

National Politics

Local Politics

Power on the Hill

International Powers

Legal Powers

Business Powers

Lobbying, Advocacy, and Think Tanks

Media

Education Powers

Nonprofits, Philanthropy, and Religion

Medicine

Arts and Culture

Gone are the days

when women in boardrooms or at the helm of major institutions were a rarity. In assembling our biennial list of the Most Powerful Women in Washington, we had the opposite problem: We came across so many impressive, talented, and influential women that we could have filled many more pages.

We read, researched, and reached out to people in the know across the DC area, from business to media to politics, and asked for names of women in their particular field of expertise or beyond whom they considered powerful. Who is making thing

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