Peggy Fleming

Peggy Fleming grew up in Monterey, CA, and arrived in Washington, DC, in 1959. She spent four years working for Senator John F. Kennedy, first in the Senate, then on the Presidential campaign, during the transition and in the White House, focusing on civil rights issues under Harris Wofford. She has also worked as a cultural anthropologist, a teacher, and a National Park Service Park Ranger in Resources Management in Rock Creek Park. In 1988, Fleming turned to photography and video, creating still and moving images devoted to the neighborhoods of Washington, DC. She has exhibited at Multiple Exposures Gallery in the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA, and her photographs are in several permanent collections, including the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Library of Congress.