Honorees championing DEI initiatives celebrated at Missouri Botanical Garden event
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Reported by By Veneta Rizvic – Special Sections Editor, St. Louis Business Journal
Sep 4, 2025
The St. Louis Business Journal on Thursday celebrated the winners of the Champions for Diversity & Inclusion Awards for 2025 with a luncheon at the Missouri Botanical Garden's Bayer Event Center.
About 170 people attended the event, which celebrated 10 individuals, one nonprofit and two for-profit companies for their work in making St. Louis a more inclusive place to live and work. The 2025 honorees represent some of the region's largest public and private companies and nonprofits, including Thompson Coburn, FleishmanHillard, GreaterHealth Pharmacy & Wellness and Rung for Women.
Business Journal Publisher and Market President Robert Bobroff welcomed guests to the event before handing the microphone off to Michael McMillan of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, who delivered opening remarks as this year's presenting sponsor. Following lunch, Business Journal Special Sections Editor Veneta Rizvic and Bobroff presented the awards to this year's winners, who are being profiled in next week's print edition of the Business Journal.
