Jason Collington

Tulsa World Executive Editor

“I wanted to help people — I just wasn’t sure how.”

That’s what BeHeard Movement founder Evan Dougoud said when he was featured as a Tulsan of the Year by the Tulsa World in 2022.

Reporter Tim Stanley writes about him and his nonprofit in today’s paper, after Mayor Monroe Nichols stopped by.

Each year, the Tulsa World newsroom picks newsmakers who made a difference as the Tulsans of the Year. We announce them every December. It’s a great way to remember how this community is made up of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Dougoud set up his first mobile shower in 2021. It was mounted to a trailer and was towed to different areas, serving the unhoused population where they were. When he was honored in 2022, Dougoud worked to better

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