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Prior to passage, lawmakers adopted an amendment from Councilmember Christina Henderson (D) that clarified the expungements language, specifying that records related to possession of “any quantity of marijuana” before the District’s legalization law took effect in February 2015 would need to be automatically expunged by the courts.

FOX 5 also asked At-Large Councilmember Christina Henderson, who participates in the Judiciary and Public Safety Committee, whether she agreed with the family’s response that if you do the crime – you should do the time. "I think that this case, as in others that occurred in 2020 and 2021 have brought up conversations in the community in terms of what does ‘accountable’ look like when it comes to juveniles? And I’m sure we’ll continue to have that conversation, in the council, with the office of the attorney general – as well as our mayor," Henderson said.

“It can’t be the Hunger Games,” At-Large Councilmember Christina Henderson quipped at a press conference on Thursday announcing the new system. “There has to be a better way to deliver access to families.”

National School Breakfast Week and Hear the Crunch are also important moments for us to look ahead to what is in store for school meals. The Universal School Meals Amendment Act of 2023, introduced by D.C. Councilmember Christina Henderson aims to provide school meals (including school breakfast) and afterschool snacks at no charge to all District of Columbia students regardless of household income.

The legislation also expands the list of foods that can be legally prepared in one’s home and sold with the proper packaging and labels to include food items that require time or temperature controls, with the exception of raw meat and raw dairy projects. That provision concerned council member Christina Henderson (I-At Large), who became chair of the council’s health committee in January.

hese vouchers are not an immediate solution, since many recipients still do not have a place to stay. There are currently 800 people in D.C. with a voucher who have not been placed and will not be anytime soon, including many of those at McPherson Square. While D.C. has enough funded housing vouchers to effectively end homelessness, according to Council member Christina Henderson, a lack of staff and caseworkers prevents them from being used.

At Thursday’s hearing, D.C. Council member Christina Henderson (I-At Large), who chairs the council’s oversight committee, said it was “frankly embarrassing” that the District has enough funded vouchers to functionally end chronic homelessness but “can’t seem to get out of our own way.”

DC Councilmember At-Large Christina Henderson is chair of the Health Committee which oversees the Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services. CM Henderson sent WUSA9 this statement: “I have been engaged with Deputy Mayor Turnage and DHS Director Zeilinger regarding all of the encampment cleanups and closures that were scheduled for early February to understand the reasons for the actions, the number of residents impacted, and more importantly, how we are connecting individuals to services and housing options.

The FRESH STARTS Act also directs the D.C. Correctional Facilities Task Force to develop a plan for promoting nutrition and aims to improve Council oversight of facilities with increased information sharing. The legislation was co-introduced by Councilmembers Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), Christina Henderson (I-At-Large), Robert White (D-At-Large), Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7), Matthew Frumin (D-Ward 3), Janeese Lewis George (D-Ward 4), and Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1).

The killing led safety advocates and D.C. Councilmembers to question why deadly force was used. "Property is not greater than life. Karon should be alive today," D.C. Council member Christina Henderson tweeted.

Henderson says she was inspired by hearing from many women in the District who needed IVF to start a family and ended up taking second jobs at employers like Starbucks and Amazon, which offer insurance for fertility treatments. “For as progressive a city as it is, and in the nation’s capital where we have a lot of workers here who choose to start their families later in life, it was surprising to me that we didn’t require any type of coverage, and I want to right that wrong,” Henderson tells Washingtonian.

As the federal government cuts pandemic-era benefits, advocates warn that millions face a looming “hunger cliff.”