Elissa Silverman

Elissa Silverman is an American politician and reporter from Washington, D.C.. She is an independent at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia and previously held that office from 2015 to 2023. Before 2015, she was a journalist at The Washington Post and Washington City Paper covering D.C. politics, and a policy analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute. She first ran for Council in 2013 and lost before running again in 2014. She won in 2014 and was re-elected in November 2018 for a four-year term, but lost her re-election bid in 2022.