Contact Me

• Email: GrothForANC2C02@gmail.com
• Fundraising: goodchange.app/donate/nancygroth
• 771-209-4799 — Voicemail and Text Messages

Endorsements

ANC Caucuses

Rainbow (Ally), Home Rule, Vacant Property

Task Forces

• Department of Aging and Community Life Ward 2&3 Senior Wellness Center (March – September 2025)
• DC Neighborhood Parks (January – September 2025)

Affiliations

• FreeDC — FreeDC-ANC, FreeDC-Congress Working Group
• DC YIMBY
• Foundry United Methodist Church Sacred Resistance
• Network Lobby
• Washington Interfaith Network

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About Me

I was born in Casper, Wyoming in 1958, have been disabled since birth, and grew up mostly in the western suburbs of Denver, Colorado. I was a National Merit Scholar at Green Mountain High School, and a Boettcher Scholar at The Colorado College, where I earned a BA in International Political Economy (Soviet Studies) and was the first wheelchair user in The College’s history. I am divorced and have lived in Ward 2 for over 40 years, first in north Dupont on 17th Street before moving to Thomas Circle.

Professionally: Like many adult Washingtonians, I moved to the DMV right after college to start my first career job in the Federal government. I have since reinvented my professional life through several content areas and across the gamut of DC-typical industries: sales (tech); applications programming (many clients, including US exporters); small business owner (70 clients for the export application); nonprofit administration (teacher education accreditation). I retired on permanent disability benefits in 2012, and I now volunteer in social justice causes only as I am able. For ten years 2013-2023, I volunteered in administrative roles for Network Lobby, home of the “Nuns on the Bus” campaigns as a Catholic Social Justice lobby.

LGBTQ Ally: As a straight cisgender ally, I want to support and not appropriate queer spaces. As the mother of a trans man now in his 30s, I have a mother’s passion for speaking out against hate-based violence.

I have rolled the DC Pride Parade for at least 25 years with Foundry and allied Methodists groups; in 2025 and 2026 I rolled the Parade with Ward 2 Commissioners and with Capital Stonewall Democrats.

I have also attended the Mayor’s Pride Flag Raising at the Wilson Building in 2025 and 2026:

Faith Community: I believe in a complete separation of church and state, and I reject White Christian Nationalism and religious colonialism. As a United Methodist and member of Foundry United Methodist Church since 1988, I take very seriously my membership vow to “resist evil, injustice, and oppression in whatever forms they present themselves.”

At Foundry, I have held nearly every office and filled nearly every role, including Chair of Board of Trustees and Chair of Staff-Parish Relations Committee; a four-year term as member (delegate to) of the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference; four years a member of the Building Committee, guiding a major renovation and the installation of the public front access ramp; and two years a member of Governance Board. I was trained and served as a Stephens Minister (lay pastoral caregiver). I have taught Sunday School and scheduled Communion servers, I was active in Family Ministries when my kids were in youth groups and Appalachian Service Project, and I participated in many years (teaching one year) of Disciple Bible Study.

In 2024 I served in the Foundry ID Ministry assisting clients, many of whom are experiencing homelessness, to recover their identity documents: birth certificates, Social Security cards, and DC non-driver IDs. Between May and September 2024, I served 95 clients through the ID Ministry.

I am currently most active in the PerSisters women’s small group. This photo is from the summer of 2024 at Foundry, as a Scripture reader.

My Amazing Grown Sons: My three sons were raised in the DC Public Schools and are now all in their 30s—oops, the oldest is 40! The oldest is a software engineer at Amazon Web Services in Seattle; the middle is a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, a bacteriophage research director at a Belgian bioscience company; the youngest is a urology resident at NYU Langone, training as a urological surgeon in gender-affirming medicine. The photo is from Christmas Eve 2023 at Foundry, and includes the women who gave me the precious gift of being a mother-in-law.

This final photo is from August 2026 in Belgium, of most of us (the medical resident and his partner weren’t available) including the most precious gift of all, my first granddaughter.