AWARDEES

U.S. House of Representatives

Executive Director

United We Dream

Journalist & Correspondent

Journalist & Correspondent

Founder / Producer

Play Play DC

Founder

OAR Agency

Filmmaker & Former Executive Director of Just Vision

Global Head of Inclusive Outcomes, Ancestry

Journalist and Former Editor at New York Times Magazine

Policy Advisor & Organizer

ReFrame Health & Justice

Civil Rights Attorney, State Representative (Florida House of Representatives) 

Sports/Cultural Commentator and Community Leader

Founder & Owner

The Sports Bra

Independent Artist

Poet / Performer

Founder

Our Trans Capital

Executive Director

Our Space

Co-Founder & President, Pride Live (Stonewall National Monument 

Visitor Center)

Co-Founder & CEO, Pride Live (Stonewall National Monument 

Visitor Center)

Founder / Executive Director Transcending Women

Executive Leadership

Transcending Women

Mayor, City of 

San Antonio, Texas

Poet, LGBTQ Advocate & Community Leader

Director of Communications Tyler Clementi Foundation

CMO

For Them & Autostraddle

CEO

For Them & Autostraddle

Executive Director, PHL Diversity, Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau

Interim Director of Thought Leadership & Senior Research Advisor, AARP

Photographer / Educator PhotoFlo Photography

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Author & Columnist, Syracuse University

COO, Washington Prodigy / VP of Leadership Development & Research, HRC Foundation

Deputy Executive Director

ACLU

Digital Creator

RL Lockhart

Educator, EEO Specialist, Founder of NBJC, Former Leader at the Human Rights Campaign

Principal

Blueprint Strategy Group

Musician & Activist

Musician / Inductee of the Blues Hall of Fame

Independent Author, Novelist (Crime Fiction)

The American LGBTQ+ Museum

Board Chair 

Publisher

Washington Blade

Political Strategist

and Organizer

Founder & Managing Partner

New Majority Ventures

Executive Director

NWSL Players Association

Director of Public Policy & Programs National Black Justice Collective

CEO

Center on Halsted

CEO

Moxie Strategies

Film Director 

(Saving Face, The Half of It)

Screenwriter 

Independent Multidisciplinary Artist/Cultural Worker/Consultant 

CEO

Washington Spirit

American Visual Artist

Mickalene Thomas Studio

Executive Director

interACT

Co-Executive Director

GSA Network