Public Service Pride Awards

About the 2024 Public Service Pride Awards, where excellence meets recognition!

Announced annually during the Public Service Pride Week each August, these awards are a celebration of excellence and a call to honor those who have illuminated the path towards 2SLGBTQIA+ diversity, inclusion, and pride within the federal public service.

2024 Award Winners

We are thrilled to announce the winners
for the 4th Annual Government of Canada Public Service Pride (PSP) Awards.

These winners showcase the dedication and incredible initiatives, collaborations and efforts of public servants across Canada and abroad to create a more diverse, safe, respectful, healthy, and inclusive workplace for all 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Agent of Change Award Winners

Andrea Monrad
Environment and Climate Change Canada

Jeansil Bruyère
Immigration Refugee Board of Canada

Kevin Phillips
Canada Border Services Agency

Tanya Harvey
Transport Canada


Workplace Pride Initiative of the Year Award Winner

Pronoun Guide
Public Services Procurement Canada


Pride Network Award Winner

Toronto Employment Insurance Contact Centre Pride Committee
Employment and Social Development Canada

Department / Agency Award for Excellence in Pride Leadership Winner

Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Public Service Pride Awards Categories

Agent of Change Award

Recognizing advocates and leaders who are actively working to eliminate systemic barriers and advance the inclusion of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities in the federal public service.

Pride Network of the Year Award

Acknowledging a department or agency pride network that has demonstrated outstanding commitment and contributions to advancing 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion across their department or agency.

Workplace Pride Initiative of the Year Award

Celebrating an individual or team’s innovative workplace policy, plan, event or activity that has proven beneficial for promoting 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion in the workplace. 

Career Impact Award

Honoring individuals who have made a lasting and substantial impact throughout their career by actively supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ communities within the federal public service.

Department / Agency Award for Excellence in Pride Leadership

Recognizing, in response to the Open Letter, a department or agency that has exhibited exceptional leadership by actively implementing and demonstrating results through sustained organization-wide actions or initiatives, such as those outlined in the letter, in support of 2SLGBTQIA+ employees.

Previous Editions of the Public Service Pride Awards

2023 Winners

Agent of Change Award

Megan Otu
Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Kaye Low
Veterans Affairs Canada

Major André P. Jean
Canadian Armed Forces / National Defence

Amér Mubaslat
Global Affairs Canada

Andrew Caldwell
Employment and Social Development Canada

Workplace Pride Initiative of the Year Award

Elliott L. Welch Memorial Award
Employment and Social Development Canada

Pride Network Award

3rd CDSB Edmonton Defence Team Pride Advisory Organization
National Defence

Career Impact Award

Andrea Markowski
Correctional Service of Canada

Department / Agency Award for Excellence in Pride Leadership

Justice Canada

2022 Winners

Agent of Change Award

David Beamer, Canada Revenue Agency
Dr. Holly Ellingwood, Public Safety Canada
Lee Nevens, Justice Canada
Lydia Lipic, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Jefferson Morris IV, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Pride Network Award

Defense Team Pride Advisory Organization, Department of National Defense and Canadian Armed Forces

Workplace Pride Initiative of the Year Award

Directive on Inclusive Sanitary Facility Design, Parks Canada

Career Impact Award

Missy Marston-Shmelzer, Canadian Heritage

Pioneer Award

Michelle Douglas, LGBT Purge Fund

2021 Winners

Agent of Change Award

David Da Silva, Global Affairs Canada
Johanne Charest, Canada Border Services Agency
Teresa Joudrie, Indigenous Services Canada
Taryn Husband, Global Affairs Canada 
Tamara Lopez, Canada Border Services Agency
Richard Hansen, Canada Revenue Agency

Pride Network Award

Gender and Sexual Diversity Inclusiveness Network, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Workplace Pride Initiative of the Year Award

Universally Accessible Washrooms in Terrasses de la Chaudière Complex
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, Indigenous Services Canada, Canadian Heritage

Career Impact Award

Artur Wilczynski, Communications Security Establishment
Guy Desaulniers, Public Service Commission

Follow us on Twitter for updates