Meet The Team

Chris Pyrate is an award-winning muralist, painter & designer. Recognized by the likes of Complex, Juxtapoz Magazine, Nike, Adidas, Washington Post, Teen Vogue & more. Originally from Southeast DC, Chris spent his youth painting and eventually designing for streetwear boutiques. After dropping out of art school; he moved to NYC to pursue a career in illustration. Eventually working with Brands such as Diesel & Adidas during events such as HYPEFEST & the first ever large-scale Yeezy launch. Following NYC, Chris took residency in Miami as a mural artist and afterwards returned back home to DC. Creating projects with the likes of, Mayor Muriel Bowser, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and Nike. In 2020 Chris launched the high-end, art-focused streetwear brand “Chris Pyrate and Friends” and currently has an ongoing partnership with leather-goods brand MCM among others.

Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Keyonna graduated from St. John’s College High School in 2006 and started her collegiate career as a student of Psychology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. In search of a more challenging path, she transferred to Philip Merrill’s College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park where she received her Bachelors of Arts in Broadcast Journalism with a concentration in Education. She obtained her Master’s in Science Management with a specialization in Public Relations in December 2019.

During the four years she worked as a news producer for News Radio station WNEW, 99.1, Keyonna received two Edward Murrow Awards. Returning to one of her original passions, in August 2015, Keyonna founded Congress Heights Arts and Culture Center (CHACC) home of #soufsidecreative, located at 3200 MLK Ave. SE, with a mission to bring something new and necessary to the East of the River community in the District of Columbia.

The Museum is a premium boutique/gallery that caters to enthusiasts who use fashion and art as sources of inspiration. Our boutique is designed as a classic art gallery, which allows the curation of fashion Art in popular culture through lifestyle and design. The Museum retail experience offers apparel, footwear, collectible goods and artwork from the most coveted brands and artists around the world. We epitomize quality and exclusivity through a vision of excellence and distinction.

LeGreg Harrison and Muhammad Hill desired to create a location in their hometown of Washington, D.C. that reflected their love of art and fashion. In the summer of 2016, the two friends founded The Museum DC, a premium gallery that caters to enthusiasts who use fashion and art as sources of inspiration. The Museum retail experience offers apparel, footwear, collectible goods, and art. The boutique has hosted pop-ups with local brands, fashion shows from major labels, book signings, listening parties, and health/wellness expos. LeGreg and Muhammad are committed to using their positions as influencers and entrepreneurs to provide consumers and enthusiasts with art in the form of fashion.

The Museum DC's core values have been shaped by their experience of success and spirit of perseverance to provide inspirational art through fashion. The brand's core values are embodied by a triad of beliefs: maintain and protect brand integrity, nurture relationships within our community, and provide exceptional customer service. The brand continuously provides their customers with quality, trendy apparel and a positive shopping experience, both in-store and on-line. 

Mr. Moten is the co-founder of Don't Mute DC, which was sparked by D.C.'s uproar against culture erasure by gentrifiers in D.C.'s Historic Shaw community. He and co-founder Natalie Hopkinson created a petition which collected over 80,000 signatures and became the organic spark that united D.C. as it gave the natives and lovers of D.C.'s rich culture a much-needed victory at a time when many had given up and stopped fighting. Currently, Ron and his partners at Check It Enterprises are in the process of opening the Go-Go Museum In Washington, DC, in Anacostia.

His latest endeavor includes launching the "Social Media Caucus" to address social media's adverse side effects on youth and adults. He believes it can be a more of a positive tool to teach and preach many of the social ills and destructive behaviors being magnified on even more during the new COVID world we live in.

Ronald “Moe” Moten has received countless honors for his work, including the McDonalds Community Leader Award, 2020 Mayor's Arts Award For Community Advocacy, Search For Common Ground Award, Delta Sigma Theta Florence Letcher Toms Award for Outstanding Community Service, NAACP Outstanding Leadership Award in Juvenile Justice and The National Trial Lawyers Association.

Monica Ray leverages thirty years’ experience in fiscal and operational management across for-profit and not-for-profit sectors to support the management of and development of programs and policy for all aspects of community development. In her role with CHCTDC, she developed programs to provide the under- and unemployed residents with occupational skills training that would enable them to move into full time permanent employment. More recently, she has worked to improve the economic opportunity of lower income individuals by building personal assets, self-employment, and entrepreneurship through alternative business strategies. Ms. Ray is particularly adept at convening community dialogue and responding to residents of emerging communities.  She works with local businesses, developers, and investors to manage community expectations, with a keen insight into real estate development and its impacts on local communities. She also currently serves as Chair to Community College Preparatory Academy, the first adult charter school East of the Anacostia River, and Vice Chair to the Anacostia Coordinating Council and Cedar Tree Academy, a premier early childhood educational center.  She’s a proud mother, grandmother to Nehemiah and enjoys motorcycling and competitive swing dancing in her free time.