In an era of “fake” news, Justin Mayo (left) and Mike Baker demonstrated the ongoing importance and power of in-depth reporting in their investigative series “Quantity of Care.”

Shefali Ranganathan, photographed by the University of Washington Link station on September 5, is helping to transform how Seattleites get around

Jeffery Lew, seen here at Seattle World School, led the charge to erase school lunch debt among students in Seattle—and across the state.

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…

Climate champ Jay Inslee

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

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…

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

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. …