David Velazquez, president and CEO of the Potomac Electric Power Company known as Pepco, stated at a virtual press briefing on Jan.
28 that a joint project that Pepco and the Washington Interfaith Network (WIN) have launched this week to “advance equity, inclusion, economic opportunity and social justice” for underserved communities in D.C.
will be fully inclusive of LGBTQ people. Velazquez and WIN co-founders Rev. H. Lionel Edmonds and Rev. Joseph Daniels Jr. told the press briefing the partnership that Pepco and WIN have created was aimed at pushing aggressively for higher wages and more career opportunities for more District residents and to help expand local and diverse businesses, including minority-owned businesses.