Moran joined Sixth & I as govt director and CEO in 2016, pivoting from a vocation in television that commenced at Discovery, where she labored her way into a programming and scheduling gig for TLC — supporting to Americanize the British formats that became “Trading Spaces” and “Junkyard Wars.” Just after a stint at E! operating on the Type Community, she ran the programming division at the National Geographic channel right before getting on Sixth & I’s prime job.
With her history in television, she produced a wager that installing cameras to stream dwell events would be a worthwhile investment, which set Sixth & I up for results all through the pandemic. “Part of our mission, and part of what is so crucial to us, is to be a low barrier to entry for persons,” Moran says. “We also grew our countrywide viewers, which was not something that we had definitely thought about prior to.”
Sixth & I is maybe the only area in the region where you can enjoy a common stay podcast recording, catch an up-and-coming indie band, listen to a chat from a best-marketing writer and celebrate Jewish vacations — all in a synagogue, typically within just the similar 7 days. “We want folks to obtain this means, we want people today to discover connection,” Moran states. “We do that on the Jewish aspect by creating sure that our courses are focused on youthful Jews in D.C. And we do it on the entertainment side pretty in another way since our viewers is pretty much every person in Washington.”
However she grew up in Philadelphia, Moran, 49, has used the far better component of a few decades in the D.C. place, transferring from Foggy Bottom, the place she attended George Washington College in the ’90s, to Silver Spring in advance of in the end landing in the Kensington/Chevy Chase region (with a brief stint in New York Metropolis in amongst). “I like the reality that D.C. is so distinct relying on exactly where you go,” Moran claims. In dreaming up a best day in D.C., Moran embraces the area’s breadth of matters to do, while also nodding to her past.
The initially factor that takes place is my most effective friend’s in town, Amy, who I met at GW. She life in New York now, and we never ever get to shell out enough time with each other. Aspect of my aspiration is that we get to spend the working day together. I enjoy breakfast, so just before we head into the metropolis, we go to Parkway Deli in Silver Spring — a whole institution. I’m obtaining whitefish salad on an almost everything bagel, not toasted. I believe that toasted bagels are an abomination. This is an ongoing discussion at Sixth & I workers conferences, but there is only 1 ideal response. Their pickle bar is not open up for breakfast, but it is my dream day, so it is.
We’re in Silver Spring, so we in all probability go to Loyalty Bookstore suitable there. Whenever I go to a new town, I go to an unbiased bookstore. It’s a person of my beloved factors. I like nonfiction. The one that I’m holding in my fingers right now, which I’m obsessed with, is “Our Unfinished March” by Eric Holder, for the reason that we hosted him recently. It’s about the previous and foreseeable future of the vote, and I really like it. This is likely to trigger something that is likely to make me want to go through a thing else. There are books that are on the shelf at Loyalty that I’d have to unique order at other locations, and I want to lean into that.
We would go downtown. I really like new books and old records. Initially we would go to Politics and Prose, the one on Connecticut [Avenue]. I really feel like I can get all the things there — it’s so large. They have these kinds of a sweet coffee bar and this kind of an incredible kids’ area. Then we’ll go to Som Records. I like that it is a gap in the wall. I really like it there, and it just feels like you can hunt for a minor treasure. And in contrast to a shiny new reserve, I want an old record that can have a skip in it — that’s great with me. If I bought really fortunate, I’d locate a dwell Stevie Marvel album. I also generally go to the soundtrack segment simply because I enjoy musicals, and they also have soundtracks from outrageous tv demonstrates you didn’t will need to know have soundtracks.
We’re heading to Chinatown for lunch since I know a great deal about lunch in Chinatown. So I would in all probability do one thing brief due to the fact I have points to do. I appreciate Tiny Sesame. I really like their hummus — it’s excellent. I’m obtaining a hummus bowl with chicken. I will question for more pita.
We’re heading to the Countrywide Portrait Gallery. What’s wonderful is that I can stroll 3 blocks and just stare at Michelle Obama’s portrait, and it would make me sense superior. Or they have beverages in the Kogod Courtyard. So, you know, middle-of-the-day pinot grigio?
It wouldn’t be my excellent day if I wasn’t in a position to choose a nap. I like a nap. All I have to have is 30 minutes. I fully could pop into my workplace, and I would come to feel no shame in that.
Next is Navy Garden because Amy’s never ever walked on the water by Navy Property for the reason that that wasn’t a thing when we went to GW. It is not far too lengthy of a stroll, and if it is Wednesday, Dreaming Out Loud has a farmers market. Then there’s a particular retail outlet that I go to every single time I’m there called Steadfast Supply. Which is wherever you get the reward for someone that you did not know you necessary to get. It is so nicely-curated. I do have a canine, and I got him a puppy toy shaped like an avocado. It has held up much more than any other pet toy I have at any time purchased.
Now it’s time to convey in my partner, Sean, and the young ones. Due to the fact it’s my dream working day, the youngsters are both equally actually intrigued in coming to hang out with me. We’d all meet at Duke’s Grocery in Foggy Base since it is good GW memories. They have just one of the finest burgers in town: the Right Burger. It’s messy and delectable. And it’s also not enormous. But I have to have a lot of extra napkins. And a Maker’s and Coke.
We’re likely to go home. We’re heading to get in our PJs. And we’re heading to cuddle up on the couch all jointly. But we have to get cupcakes from Baked and Wired on the way house. I would get basic vanilla, but I really like their strawberry. They have an Elvis cupcake that’s peanut butter banana — it is just so fantastic. We’re seeing videos from the ’80s. “Goonies” or “Young Sherlock Holmes,” which usually they would in no way allow for me to do, and we’d most likely enjoy an Adam Sandler film. But I really don’t treatment because I’m just satisfied to be with them and cuddling.
