Nominate an Everyday Hero
Everyday Heroes are people or organizations who:
- Make our community stronger and improve our collective quality of life
- Bring innovative ways of thinking and taking action to their work
- Focus on the Pacific Northwest
Everyone is invited to nominate an Everyday Hero during the annual spring nomination period. The nomination period for 2022 is now closed.
Nominations for the 2023 Everyday Hero will open in this space next spring.
A selection committee including community members, MOHAI staff and members of the MOHAI Board of Trustees reviews and selects the award winners.
Everyday Heroes receive a special honorarium and recognition at the annual MOHAI History Makers Gala.
2021 Everyday Heroes
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.
Video Credit: Mighty Media Studios
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.
Video Credit: Mighty Media Studios
