TCCR Staff
Wilhelmina Lawson
Executive Director, Co-Founder
Wilhelmina Lawson brings years of corporate experience to her role as a community activist. Since she moved to Washington, DC more than a decade ago, she has offered administrative support to local law firms and government including work as a facilitator of community outreach training for the U.S. Attorney’s office. In 1994, she founded Trinidad Concerned Citizens for Reform (TCCR) and in April 1996, TCCR was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Throughout her career, Ms. Lawson has worked diligently for her community and city, assessing, identifying, and solving problems with a focus on sustainability. She made several key presentations on community involvement including a speech on “Community Strategies for Reducing Crime and Improving Quality of Life” at the 1999 National Town Hall Meeting for Sustainable America in Detroit, Michigan and at the 10th Annual International Problem Solving Policing Conference in San Diego, California. She has also co-presented with former D.C. Chief of Police, Charles H. Ramsey on the state of policing and preventive policing.
In November 2008, she was elected to her fifth term as Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in Ward 5.
Ms. Lawson (inside "The People's Checkpoint" mortgaged her home and put up her retirement fund to donate this former liquor store to TCCR to serve as the headquarters for a job training and placement center.
She and several neighbors have planted front-yard gardens to help inspire a change in Trinidad from a drug community to a garden community.