Katherine Kehrli – Community Loaves

Community Loaves started when Katherine Kehrli wanted to bake bread for her local food bank. It then expanded to an all-volunteer network of over 500 bakers, flour packers, drivers, and baker mentors. In 2020, they delivered over 8000 loaves of bread to local food pantries.

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Rita Zawaideh – Salaam Cultural Museum

Rita Zawaideh founded the Salaam Cultural Museum (SCM) to raise awareness of Arab American cultures and provide support to refugees and immigrants, both locally and internationally. She is a one-person community information center for the Arab community. Zawaideh has used her travel agency network to organize volunteer trips and donation drives for refugees in the Middle East and North Africa since the 1980s.

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Feed the People with Seattle Community Kitchen Collective

These chefs organized themselves very early on in the COVID-19 pandemic to provide free meals to all people in need of a hot meal. They combined resources to prepare hundreds of meals nearly every day.

Seattle Community Kitchen Collective consists of:

• Damon Bomar and Chef Kristi Brown of That Brown Girl Cooks and Communion
• Chef Tarik Abdullah, founder Feed the People
• Melissa Miranda of Musang
• Chera Amlag of Hood Famous Bakeshop
• Cam Hanin of Guerrilla Pizza Kitchen
• Guitar Srisuthiamorn of Sugar Hill

Omari Salisbury and Converge Media

As co-founder of Converge Media, a multifaceted production platform created to uplift Black media, Omari Salisbury is fully committed, driven, and open with his opinions. His passion is evident in his long-standing coverage of Seattle’s Central District and reporting on Black Lives Matter, the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) following George Floyd’s murder, and more.

UW Medicine COVID-19 Equity Champions

Dr. Lisa Chew, Martine Pierre-Louis, and Paula Houston rose to the challenge of suppressing the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak with inventive, real-time solutions. They realized that serving everyone required a fully concerted effort between medical personnel and community outreach.