dsm magazine, Business Record’s sister publication, is proud to honor Central Iowa’s LGBTQ community leaders with our annual LGBTQ Legacy Leader Awards. This year’s six honorees represent a wide range of vocations, lead with vigor and compassion, solve problems and help build a community that we can be proud to call home. Join us in congratulating this year’s LGBTQ Legacy Leaders:

• Kayla Bell-Consolver (she/her), owner and founder of Question Kayla, a mental health education initiative, director of Broadlawns Drake Student Counseling Center and adjunct professor of counseling at Drake.
• Shannon Samuelson (she/her), senior credit underwriter with Wells Fargo and treasurer of the Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce Board.
• Jenny Smith (she/her), financial adviser and owner of Smith + Friedberg Financial, and former board chair of One Iowa.
• Jeremy Weiss (he/him), director and U.S. head of front office consulting for Alpha FMC, current board chair for One Iowa and Community Youth Concepts.
• Emerging Leader Award: Tristan Miedema (he/they), founding director of the TRANScendent choral ensemble and associate professor of voice in musical theater at Drake.
• Ally Award: Connie Ryan (she/her), executive director of the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa and the founder and chair of Justice Not Politics.
  

The honorees will be celebrated during a special event Sept. 9 at the River Center. Event details and registration will be announced this summer.