31 Facts About Adrian Fenty

Since leaving office, Adrian Fenty has become a special advisor to the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and served as a member of the business development team at the law firm Perkins Coie.

Adrian Fenty has held advisory and business development roles with Rosetta Stone, Everfi, and Capgemini.

Adrian Fenty has served on the boards of directors at two nonprofits: Genesys Works-Bay Area and Fight for Children.

Adrian Fenty has served as a paid speaker, part-time college professor, and adviser for state and local governments with an information technology consulting firm.

Adrian Fenty is the middle child amongst three boys: Shawn, himself, and Jesse.

Adrian Fenty's family immigrated to the United States from the comune of Monte San Giovanni Campano in Lazio in 1920.

Phil and Jeanette Adrian Fenty moved to Washington, DC, in 1967.

Adrian Fenty graduated from Mackin Catholic High School, where he ran track.

Adrian Fenty remains a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.

Adrian Fenty then served as an aide to Councilmember Kevin P Chavous, was elected to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission, district 4C, and was president of the 16th Street Neighborhood Civic Association.

In 2000, Adrian Fenty won a seat on the Council of the District of Columbia, defeating longtime Ward 4 Councilmember Charlene Drew Jarvis by a margin of 57 to 43 percent after engaging in an aggressive door-to-door strategy.

Adrian Fenty stressed her ability to cooperate with diverse groups and reach consensus.

The power shift allowed Adrian Fenty to make swift changes in the system's central office, alter teacher qualification requirements, and implement a school consolidation process.

In choosing Rhee, Adrian Fenty consulted with national education figures including New York City School Chancellor, Joel Klein.

Adrian Fenty's administration had taken on a major, five-year maintenance and construction effort to improve school buildings by 2014.

Under Adrian Fenty, Lanier added police officers to the streets and expanded community policing initiatives, for example, "beefing up" the policy of accepting anonymous text message tips from local residents to cut down on potential retaliation.

Adrian Fenty championed development efforts including renovating libraries, parks and recreation centers.

Additionally, the Adrian Fenty administration improved the delivery of emergency medical services and expanded health care coverage for the uninsured.

In December 2009, Adrian Fenty signed the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Act of 2009 to legalize same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia.

Adrian Fenty was known to carry three BlackBerry devices: one directly connected him to the police chief, the second was for other district business, and the third was for personal matters.

Adrian Fenty officially launched his reelection bid in April 2010, defending his management style and pledging to remind voters that had made the types of tough decisions that are necessary for real change.

Adrian Fenty donated the $440,709 remaining in his citizen-service fund to Forward Faster.

Also in January 2011, it was announced that Adrian Fenty would become a distinguished visiting professor of politics, a featured lecturer and a career adviser in the Department of African American Studies at Oberlin College in Ohio.

In February 2011, Adrian Fenty became an outside adviser to Rosetta Stone, which produces foreign-language software.

In March 2011, Adrian Fenty became a strategic adviser for the state and local government practice of Capgemini Government Solutions LLC, an information technology consulting firm.

In May 2011, Adrian Fenty became a member of the advisory board of EverFi Inc.

In July 2011, Adrian Fenty joined the plaintiff and litigation oriented law firm of Klores Perry Mitchell as special counsel.

On Morning Joe on March 8,2011, Adrian Fenty backed Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker's anti-union efforts and broadly condemned the concept of public employee collective bargaining.

Adrian Fenty said that the Democratic Wisconsin senators should be held accountable for leaving the state to delay the enactment of Walker's legislation.

In 1997, Adrian Fenty married Jamaican-British Michelle Cross Adrian Fenty, a corporate attorney.

Adrian Fenty's son Andrew is a tennis player who achieved a national junior tennis rank of 4 before starting at the University of Michigan in 2018 where he earned Freshman of the Year status from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and the Big Ten Conference and was named the NCAA's Rookie of the Year.