The GSBA Business & Humanitarian Awards honor businesses and business leaders who are successful, exemplify the highest standards of their profession, promote diversity and inclusion in the workplace, demonstrate leadership, and invest time and resources into their community.
Our Recipients
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New Business of the Year
Business of
the Year
Nonprofit of
the Year
Special Recognition
Egan Orion, Chef Tamara Murphy, Linda Di Lello Morton, Marina Grey, Damian Ronda, Sharon Alexander, Alexa Halling, Alex Alatorre, Laurie Goff, Charmaine Slye
Sustaining Community
Feed the People, That Brown Girl Cooks & Communion, Guerilla Pizza Kitchen, Hood Famous Bakeshop, and Sugar Hill
Our Finalists
New Business of the Year
Owner Greggory & Alison Holcomb, Jesse Elliot, & Lisa Tomilson
Owners Shadae Simone & Annya Pintak
Owner Adra Boo
Owners Kristi Brown & Damon Brown
Business Leader of the Year
Danielle Hulton
Co-owner, Ada's Technical Books & Café and Fuel Coffee
Donna Moodie
Owner, Marjorie
Business of the Year
Owner Jude Le Tronik
Owners Nathan Adams & Michale Adams- Farrar
Nonprofit of the Year
Community Leader of the Year
J. Manny Santiago
Executive Director, Washington State LGBTQ Commission
Jaimee Marsh
Executive Director, FEEST Seattle
About us
Established in 1981, GSBA is Washington State's LGBTQ+ and allied chamber of commerce and is the largest of its kind in North America. The chamber represents over 1,300 small business, corporate, and nonprofit members who share the values of promoting diversity, equity, equality, and inclusion in the workplace. GSBA proudly serves as a connector across the region, bringing communities together through business while advocating for civil rights and small business. GSBA also promotes LGBTQ+ tourism through Travel Out Seattle, advocates for small businesses in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Neighborhood through the Capitol Hill Business Alliance (CHBA), and invests in the next generation of LGBTQ+ and allied leaders through the GSBA Scholarship & Education Fund.
