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…

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…

Jorge Barón (left) and Carlos Rodriguez, both fighting for immigrant rights, photographed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

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…

From left: Fighting for justice, accountability and equal opportunity, Dominique Davis, Nikkita Oliver and Anne Levinson with the King County Jail in the background.

C. Davida Ingram, who leads the library’s civic engagement programs, inside the Central Library “living room.”

Senait Brown has been a leader in the movement to stop the proposed new youth jail.

Last year’s rainy “season” was one of the city’s wettest on record. With this year’s wet months about to begin, we gear up for the annual awkward follies of windblown, inside-out umbrellas, sidewalk turf wars and ’brella-spreading on public transportation. Seattle magazine staff—despite the ongoing debate as to whether “real” Seattleites use umbrellas—offer these essential…