Meet Darryl Nirenberg

Darryl Nirenberg is a 22 year resident of Alexandria and 40 year resident of Northern Virginia. He was raised in a small town in Upstate New York, where he attended public schools and played baseball and football.

Darryl paid his own way through college and law school; saving money from starting a paper route, delivering groceries for a neighborhood convenience store, painting interiors; working check out and stocking shelves in a grocery store, bussing tables at a Catskills resort, waiting on tables at the Key Bridge Marriott here in Rosslyn and starting his own business selling premium candies from a roadside stand.

The day he graduated from Colgate University, Darryl moved to what were then the Hamlets in the West End of Alexandria,. He found a job on Capitol Hill, and returned to his job waiting on tables at the Marriott in the evenings to help save for law school.

While working as a Senate staffer, Darryl attended night law school at the George Washington University. Following a fourteen year career in the Senate, where he earned a reputation for reaching across the aisle to find common ground and produce results, Darryl entered the private sector, practicing law at two major bipartisan DC-based law firms.

Darryl has been involved in youth sports for nearly two decades. He has coached in the Alexandria Soccer Association and in the Arlington Little League, and served on the Board of the Arlington Little League and the Northern Virginia Ice Dogs Hockey Program.

He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Positive Coaching Alliance, a grassroots national organization dedicated to transforming the culture of youth sports and making organized sports more accessible to youths in underserved communities.

Darryl and his wife Lori live in the Northridge neighborhood of Alexandria, where they raised their two children, Drew and Kelly, and their faithful dog, Presley. They recently welcomed a pandemic puppy, Gatsby.