November 2017
Person of the Year 2017: The Unexpected Activist
Seattle Magazine presents the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.
It’s been a year in which locals have taken to the streets time and time again—so frequently that barely a week or weekend has gone by without a protest, march or event spilling into Seattle streets and filling public spaces. From anti-Trump and pro-Trump rallies to Block the Bunker events, immigration rights walks, a tax…
Seattle’s Box Lunch Queen Has Made Work Day Meals Less Bland for 20-Plus Years
How Gourmondo built an order-in workplace delivery empire, one tasty boxed lunch at a time.
If anyone has been monitoring the evolution of the local business lunch more closely than Alissa Leinonen, we haven’t found that person. When Leinonen launched Gourmondo, Seattle’s leading catering and box lunch company, in 1996, it was a 470-square-foot café in Pike Place Market. Now, her team delivers more than 10,000 box lunches (ranging in…
Most Influential Seattleites of 2017: Intiman Theatre’s Andrew Russell and Jennifer Zeyl
Seattle Magazine presents the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.
When Andrew Russell, Intiman Theatre’s artistic director, took the reins of the debt-ridden, Tony Award–winning Seattle theater institution—just after it cancelled its 2011 season and laid off its entire staff—the then 28-year-old faced an enormous question: “How do you heal a community and re-create a theater company in Seattle?” he says. He turned to producer…
Most Influential Seattleites of 2017: Matt Remle
Seattle Magazine presents the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.
Last october, when Matt Remle suggested to Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant that the city close its accounts with Wells Fargo—a bank that provided key financing to the Dakota Access Pipeline—divestment was a word more often associated with the anti-apartheid movement in the 1980s, not a battle over land, water and civil rights in…
Most Influential Seattleites of 2017: Jill Mangaliman
Seattle Magazine presents the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.
As executive director of the climate justice organization Got Green, Jill Mangaliman, a queer, Filipino-American community organizer, is a leader in Seattle’s growing drive for climate justice, a branch of the environmental movement focused on ending environmental racism and giving low-income people and people of color a say in policy decisions that impact their communities. …
Most Influential Seattleites of 2017: Patty Hayes
Seattle Magazine presents the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.
She doesn’t ride a white horse or wear a badge, but Patty Hayes, R.N., M.N., is the closest thing King County has to a sheriff for health, trying to protect more than 2 million county residents. The director of Public Health–Seattle & King County since 2015, Hayes, along with her team, shields residents from the…
Most Influential Seattleites of 2017: Brad Finegood
Seattle Magazine presents the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.
Brad Finegood gets a little emotional when talking about the opioid epidemic—and with good reason. His brother, whom he describes as a “good kid” whose struggles with drug addiction started in college, died of an overdose several years ago. Finegood, an addiction counselor who started out working with clients in the criminal justice system, began…