November 2017

The Most Influential Seattleites of 2017

The Most Influential Seattleites of 2017

The activists, artists, officials and neighbors making Seattle a better place.

More than 100,000 people participated in the Womxn's March on Seattle this spring.

Person of the Year 2017: The Unexpected Activist

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

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…

Crosscut’s 2017 Courage Award Winners Aren’t Afraid to Take a Stand

Crosscut’s 2017 Courage Award Winners Aren’t Afraid to Take a Stand

The local leaders making our region more vital, equitable and inclusive.

Left to right: Bill Ruckelshaus, Bob Ferguson, Doris Koo, David Harris, Larry Gossett and Pat Graney.

Most Influential Seattleites of 2017: Intiman Theatre's Andrew Russell and Jennifer Zeyl

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: Jay Inslee

Most Influential Seattleites of 2017: Jay Inslee

Seattle Magazine presents the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.

Climate champ Jay Inslee

Most Influential Seattleites of 2017: Inye Wokoma

Most Influential Seattleites of 2017: Inye Wokoma

Seattle Magazine presents the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.

The work of artist Inye Wokoma, seen here outside his Central District home, often focuses on gentrification.

Most Influential Seattleites of 2017: Matt Remle

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: Paul Allen

Most Influential Seattleites of 2017: Paul Allen

Seattle Magazine presents the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.

Paul Allen’s brought many artists and musicians to Seattle as part of his Seattle Art Fair and Upstream Music Fest.

Most Influential Seattleites of 2017: Jill Mangaliman

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

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

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…