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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…
Most Influential Seattleites of 2017: Nikkita Oliver, Dominique Davis and Anne Levinson
Seattle Magazine presents the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.
From left: Fighting for justice, accountability and equal opportunity, Dominique Davis, Nikkita Oliver and Anne Levinson with the King County Jail in the background.
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: Aneelah Afzali
Seattle Magazine presents the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.
The words of justice exhibit at Harvard Law School includes a quote from the Quran calling on believers to stand as witnesses for justice. For Aneelah Afzali, a 2003 Harvard Law graduate, these words not only reinforce the responsibility that comes with her faith, but also serve as a reminder of the many ways that…