Peggy Simpson

Peggy Simpson worked as a journalist for more than 50 years before devoting her full time to building the Aging-in-Place Village Movement. She was a founder and president of Dupont Circle Village in Washington, D.C.; served as secretary of the board of the village movement’s umbrella group, the Village to Village Network; and was a board member of WAVE, the Washington Area Villages Exchange. Her journalism career ranged from editing a weekly newspaper in Texas to 15 years as an editor and congressional reporter for The Associated Press to a decade of freelancing in Poland for business publications about the country’s transition from state socialism to a democratic market economy. She was president of the Washington Press Club and on the founding board of the WPC Foundation. In 1971, she began a groundbreaking beat on the national women’s political movement and later served as a Washington correspondent for Ms. magazine. She renovated a Victorian townhouse in the Dupont Circle area of Washington, where she lives today.