WASHINGTON — A former Kennedy Center employee will lead a protest on the steps of the nation's premier performing arts venue on Saturday, pushing back against what she describes as the politicization of the historic institution.

Mallory Miller, who worked for more than two years as part of the Kennedy Center's dance programming team, was fired in August following what she says were conflicts with President Donald Trump's newly appointed executive director, Richard Grenell, over programming changes. Miller believes her dismissal was retaliation for union organizing.

"One of the best things that unions can do for you is take you from being an at-will employee to being a for-cause employee, and when the president decided to take over the Kennedy Center in February, it felt like we might all

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