What We Do
- The Mayor’s Office of the Clean City (MOCC) bridges the work of agencies and community partners to achieve a clean, safe, and healthy District of Columbia and a Green #FairShot for all Washingtonians.
- Serve as the central point of contact and goal champion within the Mayor’s administration for preventing and reducing litter and trash pollution in the District of Columbia.
- Pursue a process improvement and legislative agenda to strengthen existing laws, improve procedures, and municipal regulations and legislation proposed for supporting the Clean City Plan.
Meet the Director
Director Maria Barry is a community leader with deep roots in public participation, programming, and partnership development. Maria is a big-picture thinker who never loses sight of the details. A creative problem solver, she understands the value of collaboration and works to bring people to affect change.
As the Director of the Mayor’s Office of the Clean City, Maria works block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood to engage with communities to roll up their sleeves and work together to make DC cleaner, greener, and stronger
Maria has held leadership roles at Tenleytown Main Street, American University and Potomac Riverkeeper Network and the National Cherry Blossom Festival. Outside of her professional roles she co-founded Uptown Main Street, the Uptown Farmers Market, and Friends of 16th Street Heights Parks.
Maria holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lives in 16th Street Heights with her family, where she serves as Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner for 4E03.
History
The Mayor’s Office of the Clean City was established by Mayor's Order 2001-31, in March 2001. MOCC leads the Mayor's Clean City Initiative by serving as the central point of contact and goal champion within the Mayor's administration for the initiative to cleanup the District of Columbia and maintain its cleanliness.
Contact Us
The Mayor’s Office of the Clean City
John A. Wilson Building
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 332, Washington, DC 20004
Phone: (202) 442-8150
Fax: (202) 727-2357
TTY: 711
Email: [email protected]
