Over the course of my professional journey I’ had the opportunity to be interviewed and featured in various media outlets, news publications, community blogs, and work in coalition with other community/citywide organizations on education policy documents. Below I have listed a few:
Heart of the City Podcast (April 2024) — Special Guest: Dr. Faith Gibson Hubbard
Silas Grant and Tony Lewis are phenomenal leaders in our Washington DC community! It is a gift to be able to call them my friends. In April 2024, they asked if I would join them on their podcast, Heart of the City, to talk about a wide array of things — black maternal health, my identity, education in DC, and about why I am so passionate about the work I do for the city we love. It was an awesome opportunity, I am forever grateful.
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Washington Post Editorial Board Endorsement (May 6, 2022): Opinion: Here’s who The Post endorses in DC Council primary elections
“Our endorsement goes to Faith Gibson Hubbard. As an educator and community organizer who later led the Mayor’s Office of Community Affairs, she has been steeped in the most pressing issues confronting the city. She has a reputation as a collaborator with a common-sense approach to government, qualities that would be valuable to the council.”
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Article Spotlight — The Afro (March 10, 2022): Ward 5 Council candidate Faith Gibson Hubbard working hard for Washingtonians outside of the spotlight
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DC Line — April 2019
Article: Mayor taps chief student advocate to head Thrive by Five DC Initiative
On April 17th, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced my appointment as the very first executive director of Thrive by Five DC, an initiative coordinating resources and services for families of young children in the District, including early education opportunities.
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DC Post — April 2019
Article: DC Mayor Appoints Faith Hubbard as First Executive Director of Thrive by Five Initiative
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Education Week — March 11, 2014
Volatility of D.C. Mayoral Campaign Raises Stakes for City Schools’ Future
Article snippet:
“Continuity is really important,” said Faith Gibson Hubbard, the president of the Ward 5 Council on Education, a nonprofit group that advocates for quality public schools in the Northeast quadrant of Washington. “I can’t say that Chancellor Henderson is doing everything that everyone wants, but I do know that if we have a new person, things will be shaken up again. She’s making good-faith efforts and she’s passionate about what she is doing.”
Ms. Hubbard said she is “definitely worried” about what the wider fallout from the revelations about Gray will be.
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WUSA9 — August 26, 2014
DC Mayoral candidate weigh in on boundaries [VIDEO]
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The Washington Post — November 19, 2013
D.C. officials delay opening of Brookland Middle School for one year to 2015
Article snippet: Faith Hubbard, president of the Ward Five Council on Education, said she is disappointed by the delay but agrees that — with enrollment lottery season fast approaching — the school system didn’t appear to have marketed the new school broadly enough to ensure a strong start.
“You can’t expect the Field of Dreams — build it and they will come,” Hubbard said.
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The Washington Post — January 18, 2014
Dunbar High School autonomy proposal stirs debate in D.C.
Article snippet: Faith Hubbard, president of the Ward Five Council on Education, said she supports Dunbar’s push for more flexibility on budget matters, curriculum and staffing. But she, too, expressed concern about requiring students to apply in order to enroll.
“Wouldn’t it be even more a story of victory if you were able to do this with the students that you have?” she said.
Hubbard suggested that it might make sense to start an application-only program at Dunbar while reserving seats to accommodate neighborhood children. “If there were a particular program or two that was selective at the school, then that would be great,” she said, “because you could have a variety of kids learning together and encouraging each other to learn.”
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The Washington Post — March 28, 2014
D.C. mayoral race injects uncertainty into school boundary overhaul
Article snippet: “This has to be the worst time to do this process,” said Faith Hubbard, a Ward 5 activist who serves on the advisory group. She said she hopes the next mayor honors the work that goes into building a final plan.
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The Washington Post — June 21, 2014
D.C. school boundary proposal spurs citywide debate about quality
Article snippet: Faith Hubbard, a member of the citizens advisory committee, said the boundary process already has triggered an intense citywide focus on school quality and is the first step in forcing the kinds of investment — both from D.C. Public Schools and from local communities — that families want to see in schools.
“This way, at least people are looking the lack of quality dead in the face,” said Hubbard, a Ward 5 parent. “There’s something at stake, something to respond to. Just waiting on DCPS to improve quality, it could be another 10 or 20 years.”
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The Washington Post — November 3, 2014
D.C. school boundaries plan gets more specific just before new mayor is elected
Article snippet: “The implementation is moving forward, but there’s still a question: Can they undo it?” said Faith Hubbard, a member of the citizen advisory committee that worked to develop the plan.
The office of the deputy mayor for education, which developed the plan, says it is “not a final draft” but something that will be updated based on “feedback, progress and new developments.”
Some changes already are in motion.
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WAMU 88.5 — April 29, 2014
D.C. School Boundary Changes Draw Opposition, But Not From Entire City
Article snippet: “Although upper Northwest in Ward 3 and those areas have been the loudest voices… their realities are just very different than other areas of the city. I don’t feel like there are enough diverse voices at the table so that everyone can understand the landscape of what’s going on in the city,” says Faith Hubbard, president of the Ward 5 Council on Education and a member of the committee.
“It’s really hard, because there are a lot of communities in the city that may feel jaded by certain processes that have taken place in the past regarding DCPS and education and so it may be hard to really reach those people because they may not feel the process is genuine,” she says. “Different communities have different norms. There may be a community where they don’t have the luxury to come to a meeting late at night, or they need childcare, or the weekend’s not really good for them.”
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Greater Greater Education — August 29, 2014
Some see the DCPS-charter relationship breaking down, but charter leaders disagree
Article snippet: “Everybody was disappointed,” said Faith Hubbard, a member of the committee who lives in Ward 5. “It was like, all this work we did over a year, and you want it to come down to this?”
Hubbard feels that attitude will be a problem for the task force that the recommendations call for. “Charters have been allowed to grow without much oversight,” she said, “and this task force is going to infringe on that. Anytime, they could say: we’re going to take our ball and go home.”
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The Brookland Bridge is a local community blog about the Brookland neighborhood in Northeast Washington, DC. Links listed below are of interviews that were conducted regarding education issues specific to our Ward 5 community.
March 18, 2013 — Ward Five Council on Education Speaks on the Brookland Middle School , Ward 5 Education Needs
September 14, 2013 — Interview With Faith Hubbard, President, Ward 5 Council On Education
July 14, 2014 — Interview – Faith Hubbard, President of the Ward Five Council on Education
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Capital Community News — September 9, 2013
Note: Local publication that published a document that was drafted in coalition with various community and citywide organizations in response to DC City Council pending legislation and the adequacy study that was, at the time, being conducted by the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education. This document was a precursor response to the student assignment and boundary process that was initiated later in the Fall of 2013 and completed in August of 2014.
Principles for the Second Round of Education Reform
Education 2013: Planning for a Great Future for Our Schools and Communities
Faith Gibson Hubbard, PhD 