Former three-term D.C. Councilmember Kathleen (Kathy) Patterson became D.C. Auditor on December 15, 2014, after being nominated and confirmed unanimously by the D.C. Council to ; she was subsequently nominated and confirmed unanimously by the Council for a six-year term on February 7, 2023.

Patterson came to ODCA after working for nearly eight years for the Pew Charitable Trusts, first as federal policy director for Pre-K Now, a 10-year Pew campaign that succeeded in doubling state investments in high-quality voluntary pre-k education across the country, then as a director in Pew’s Government Relations department. Her work for Pew included outreach to federal and state policymakers on a wide range of public policy issues, including performance budgeting, home visiting, dental care for children, election reform, and corrections reform.

Patterson was elected to the D.C. Council from Ward 3 in 1994, was re-elected in 1998 and 2002, and ran unsuccessfully for Council chairman in 2006. She chaired the committees on Government Operations, Judiciary, and Education, Recreation and Libraries. She was part of the leadership that brought the District out of financial crisis in the mid-90s and earned a reputation for effective oversight of executive branch agencies. Her major legislation included smoke-free D.C., the First Amendment Rights and Police Standards Act of 2004 governing policy practices handling demonstrations, school modernization, personnel reform, and authorization for public charter schools. Council reforms she initiated included the legislature’s annual performance hearings, authorization for special investigations, and a separate Council budget office.

Patterson is a former newspaper reporter including serving as a Washington correspondent for the Kansas City Star, and former communications director for the American Public Welfare Association. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a Master’s in English from Georgetown University.

I have been able to see and hear spirit since I was born, and I have been working as a Psychic Medium since 1994. I was born in Hartford, Connecticut and am now working worldwide as an expert in metaphysics with a focus on the field of spirit communication. Through Discernment of Spirit, I am able to hear spirit speak and receive these messages from discarnate souls in Heaven. My job as a medium is to share those messages with all of you! They want you all to know they are there, happy, healthy and full of love! Experience a Messages from Heaven™ gallery event and you will see accurately presented readings from souls with amazing validation, humor, boldness and with blunt expressions. I present verifying facts with compassion and with truly understood personality traits about your loved ones in spirit. Come and experience mediumship as I show you the amazing pathway to talking to the dead through my trademark presentation. All my events are listed on my events link on my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MessagesfromHeavenTM

I am a Certified Medium through the www.ForeverFamilyFoundation.org an award winning non-profit organization that studies the science and mediumship and focuses on proving there is an afterlife. I am featured with them in a NETFLIX Documentary (episode #4) ‘Surviving Death’.

Currently you can watch Messages from Heaven™, a monthly Television show filmed at the Community Voice Channel in Bolton, CT for a Live Audience. You can watch on Roku or Firestick as well as on YouTube. I love to host this live show, Unedited and Uncut Real Mediumship alongside informative metaphysical information for everyone!

Christine is a nationally published health and fitness/lifestyle writer. She writes a weekly column in the Sherbrooke Record, Quebec’s second-largest English language newspaper. In addition, Christine is the creator, producer, and host of B.C.’s only Running, Fitness and Health show called Run With It airing on Novus (TELUS) and YouTube channel.

She has been interviewed by mainstream media, while my stories have been printed nationally. Christine has written stories for The Seattle Times, The Vancouver Sun, Snowshoe Magazine, Canadian Running Magazine, Huffington Post, Women's National Post, Optimyz Magazie, iRun Magazine and Get Out There Magazine.

Lady Zhe is a product of the Long Beach Unified School District, and an alumnus of Long Beach Polytechnic High School. She is the proud mother two children. She is also a member of Greater Harvest Church of God In Christ where Dr. Gerald Johnson is the Pastor. She earned two Bachelors of Science degrees. One in Music and one in Management Science with an emphasis in Information Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.

Lady Zhe has performed nationally in a variety of venues. In 2005 she had the opportunity to study with Karen Briggs and in 2010 she studied with Regina Carter. She has recorded with Detroit Music Award Winning Artist Paul Miles and has opened for Motown Legend Martha Reeves of the Vandellas. Lady Zhe Has performed in a number of Venues from classical, Jazz and gospel. She is a three-time Detroit Music Award Nominee. In October 2023, Lady Zhe Performed as a soloist at the World Renowned Taste of Soul Community Festival in front of the thousands that attended on the Brenda Marsh Mitchell Gosepel Stage.

Lady Zhe brings a sensitivity and passion to the 5 string Ned Steinberger passive electric violin like no one else. Even though Lady Zhe has been classically trained her roots are in the gospel music. Once you hear and see Lady Zhe you will know this performer loves to improvise in Jazz and other genres of melodic music.

During the 2015-2016 calendar Lady Zhe has performed in Los Angeles as a featured soloist in a smooth Jazz concert. She was the featured soloist for the opening of the premier natural hair and lifestyle conference: Nappywood: “State of the Natural Hair Union” at the Reef in Los Angeles, and is scheduled to do the same this year at the 4th annual conference. She has also performed as a part of the 1st violin section in the Bellflower Symphony for their Opera concert series.

In April 2016, Lady Zhe was the featured musician for the Cal State University Dominguez production of the insightful play “Wine in the Wilderness.” In July 2016, Lady Zhe was filmed for “Nathalia”, a music video of the lead single for Burhan G, Denmark Music Award Winner, November 2016 US album release. Lady Zhe has released her single: Elevate in June 2019 in anticipation of her full length project. Elevate charted on the European Independent Music Charts. The Video for Elevate was Released worldwide in January 2021. When Elevate was picked up by independent radio it debuted on the chart at #8.

Currently Lady Zhe is currently working on a new musical/video project that will showcase her talent, gift and artistry to the world. She was the host of the Jazz and Tech Lounge with Lady Zhe podcast on the Bshani Network which has grew from 450,000 downloads and streams to 1.7 Million worldwide.

She is also an author and has also published a book in September 2017 titled, SEO Training 2017: Search Engine Optimization and Marketing for Small Business which is available on Amazon.

Morine Bartley is a Religious Science Practitioner, an Event Planer, a Ceremony Coordinator, and the maker of a widely loved Costa Rican Pepper Jelly.

As a seeker of truth, she has and continues to look deeply into inner power, her inner power, and that of each of us. Her latest work, learnings, and teachings, revolve around acknowledging that we are co-creators of our own destiny. She has learned, experienced, and teaches that, that which we are seeking is right where we are. All that is required to do, is to acknowledge and be grateful for all that we have in order to manifest that which we seek. This is to be done with no regrets, as our past experiences are lessons. We are best served learning from our lessons, thereby henceforth ever moving toward that which currently is before us is our own creation.

Morine not only reminds her clients, she embodies as well as possible, for her clients, be it spiritual, event planning, or even those who buy jelly from her, that it is indeed an awesome prevalence granted to each of us, individually, that we make a point to, every moment we have to steadfastly, acknowledge and be thankful for everything we have.

As a Religious Science Practitioner, Morine’s focus is on working with those who want to create change in their lives. And working with those who are ready to take responsibility of themselves, and learn the lessons of the past.

Morine has also recently ventured into processing, and selling her already widely loved pepper jelly.

As a Political Scientist with a lifelong passion for government service, I took my degrees in Political Science with an advanced degree in International Relations at the University of Southern California. Since that time, with fidelity to purpose, my central focus has remained on issues of National Security.
As a Political Scientist with a lifelong passion for government service, I took my degrees in Political Science with an advanced degree in International Relations at the University of Southern California. Since that time, with fidelity to purpose, my central focus has remained on issues of National Security.

During graduate school, I worked with Top Secret clearances for Analytical Assessments Corporation. I conducted research, analyzed, and wrote on matters of critical concern to the United States. After completing graduate school, I was hired to write on classified projects at Eaton, Information Management Systems Division, a multinational corporation once located in Southern California. Conducting research and working with a team to complete White Papers on intelligence systems, I continued to write on subjects related to the national security interests of the United States.

Following my time at Eaton, IMSD, I instructed courses on California Government, U.S. Government, U.S. International Relations, and other Political Science courses. I have taught at the University of California, Irvine; the Whizin Center of Continuing Education at the American Jewish University; and numerous community colleges, as well as Summit Bible College. I also had the opportunity to serve as Commissioner and Committee Chair of Community and Media Outreach for the County of Kern’s Human Relations Commission; worked on fundraising for a Cambodian Relief Effort to provide clean water to villages inside Cambodia; and, traveled to Domnesti, Romania to part of a Romanian Orphaned and Abandoned Children Relief Effort.

By electing me to be your principled public servant, I will work to always put the people of California and this nation first in order to achieve the America First Doctrine by deregulating the economy and lowering taxes for economic growth and prosperity, securing our borders, restoring the nation’s security, empowering law enforcement and strengthening the Rule of Law, ending California’s water crisis, delivering on school choice for every child, supporting energy independence and protecting the fossil fuel industry, bringing back America’s manufacturing industry, as well as voter integrity.

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Gordon G. Chang is the author of China Is Going to War, The Great U.S.-China Tech War, and Losing South Korea, booklets released by Encounter Books.  His previous books are Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World and The Coming Collapse of China, both from Random House.
Chang lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai, as Counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss and earlier in Hong Kong as Partner in the international law firm Baker & McKenzie.

His writings on China and North Korea have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The National Interest, The American Conservative, Commentary, National Review, Barron's, and The Daily Beast. He is a columnist at Newsweek and writes regularly for The Hill.  

He has spoken at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and other universities and at The Brookings Institution, The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, RAND, the American Enterprise Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and other institutions.  He has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the Pentagon.  He has also spoken before industry and investor groups including Bloomberg, Sanford Bernstein, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia.  Chang has appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.   
Chang has appeared on Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Newsmax, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, PBS, the BBC, and Bloomberg Television. He is a regular co-host on CBS Eye On the World with John Batchelor.

Outside the United States he has spoken in Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, The Hague, London, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver.

He served two terms as a trustee of Cornell University.