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HC Rice City Guide: Washington, D.C.

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Rice chapter.

Where to eat, where to shop, and what to do in our nation’s capital.

Where to eat:

Ababa Restaurant

Da Hong Pao

Baked & Wired (make sure to try their cupcakes!)

Le Diplomate

Where to shop:

Georgetown, particularly M St

CityCenterDC

Eastern Market

What to do:

Visit the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

Get your sleuth on at the International Spy Museum

Tour the monuments by night

Check out the Woman’s National Democratic Club

Ellie is a Political Science and Policy Studies double major at Rice University, with a minor in Politics, Law and Social Thought. She spent the spring of 2017 studying/interning in London, and hopes to return to England for grad school. Academically, Ellie's passion lies in evaluating policies that further the causes of gender equality, LGBT rights, and access to satisfactory healthcare, specifically as it pertains to women's health and mental health. She also loves feminist memoirs, eighteenth-century history, old bookstores, and new places. She's continuously inspired by the many strong females in her life, and is an unequivocal proponent of women supporting women.