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City Elections 2025: Meet the Candidates

City Council Candidate Bios

The biographies of the candidates are being published as they are received by the News Review. A link to each one will be added to this section as it appears in the paper.

Jenni Pompi, a white woman with short brown hair and dark-framed glasses, wears a black button-down shirt.          Jenni Pompi

Silke Pope, a blonde woman, seated at a desk, smiling. She wears a black open jacket over a silver-gray top and gold and silver beads. The Maryland and US flags are in the background.          Silke Pope

Danielle McKinney, with medium brown skin and almost-chin-length dark hair. She wars an orange blouse and blue jacket. She is in front of the Maryland flag and Greenbelt flag.           Danielle McKinney

Frankie Fritz, a young man with a slight goatee and moustache and dark brown hair, looks slightly to the right. He is wearing a patterned red and black shirt under a light gray blazer, and dark-framed glasses.           Frankie Fritz

Emmett Jordan, with medium brown skin and close-cut gray hair, looks directly into the camera. He is wearing a camel brown blazer over a white shirt, green striped tie and gray sweater. There are flags in the background.           Emmett Jordan

Kristen Weaver, a white woman with light brown hair in bangs, smiles directly at the camera. She is wearing a blue top and light-framed glasses.           Kristen Weaver

Kevin Lockhart (Coach K), an older Black man with a gray mustache and goatee, wears a gray suit, white shirt, and gray and white tie, with a Maryland pin on his lapel.          Kevin Lockhart (Coach K)

Bill Orleans, a smiling white man with a gray-white beard and balding head. Photo by Eric Zhang.          Bill Orleans

Amy Knesel, a white woman with short gray hair and glasses, wears a blue top and long earrings. Photo courtesy of Amy Knesel.            Amy Knesel

Rodney Roberts, a white man with sandy hair and a large mustache, sits at a table wearing a pale green shirt and patterned tie. Flags are in the background.          Rodney Roberts

 

Candidate Forum

Greenbelt Access Television’s recording of the candidate forum hosted by the News Review on October 9.

Or, if you prefer to read instead of watch, here’s the News Review’s full coverage of the forum, published in the issue of October 16.

 

Candidate questions

Question 1: What is the most important thing the city council needs to accomplish in the upcoming term? How would you accomplish it and how would you pay for it? Read the candidates’ answers (October 9 issue).

Question 2:  Given current economic challenges facing city residents and facing the city, how would you change what the city spends its resources on? Read the candidates’ answers (October 16 issue).

Question 3: What particular expertise do you bring to council and in what specific ways would you use it to advance your priorities? Please give concrete examples. Read the candidates’ answers (October 23 issue).

 

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