Local transgender rights group DC Trans Coalition (DCTC) is now working with ONE DC to ensure that the forthcoming Marriott Marquis Hotel (located next to the DC Convention Center) will fulfill its promise to employ approximately 500 DC residents. Members of both DCTC and ONE DC contributed questions for Marriott International's Director of Talent Acquisition. Answers to these questions would help ONE DC, DCTC, and other groups discern the best ways to get traditionally underemployed DC residents into hotel jobs with living wages, benefits, protections, and transferrable skills.

"The transgender community, as elsewhere in DC, has terrifyingly high rates of unemployment," notes Andy Bowen, a member of DCTC. "By working with ONE DC and Marriott at the start of employment recruitment, we aim to get highly skilled if underemployed transgender residents into well-paying jobs. If Marriott hires trans residents, it will empower a hard-working population and bring greater justice to the District, which is one of the best two-for-one deals possible."