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What an honor to see our Founder and CEO, Deryl McKissack, named to Washingtonian's 2026 Most Powerful Women in Washington list.

Deryl was recognized among the Business Powers shaping thenation's capital, alongside a remarkable group of women leaders across business, government, law, media, and the arts.

Washington, D.C., is where McKissack & McKissack was founded 35 years ago, and it is where much of our work lives. For more than three decades, our teams have helped shape the civic, cultural, and infrastructure fabric of D.C. through program and construction management, architecture and design, building legacy spaces where communities thrives, including:

• The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, and Lincoln Memorial
• Projects across educational institutions, ranging fromhigher ed (Howard University, UDC, The George Washington University, and Georgetown University) to K-12 schools across DCPS, Arlington, and PrinceGeorge’s County
• Utility projects, like the DC Plug initiative, DC Water,and PEPCO substations
• D.C.’s aviation expansions, through the MetropolitanWashington Airports Authority (MWAA), and other transportation projects
• Healthcare facilities, like Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center
• Economic-driving projects like MGM National Harbor,Nationals Park, the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, and Audi Field,home of D.C. United

The through line across all of it has been Deryl’s visionand steadfast leadership, which continue to carry us into the future. As partof the recently announced District PM Alliance, McKissack & McKissack willserve as project manager for the Washington Commanders' new stadium at thehistoric RFK campus, leading the sitework and infrastructure that will anchorone of the most significant developments in the District's history.

This recognition in Washingtonian magazine belongs both toDeryl and to every member of our team who brings her vision to life each day.

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