The 2022 Community Industry Awards are the second annual celebration of the best in the community industry. These awards shine a well-deserved spotlight on the people and the communities who are making waves in this industry, making a difference, and building incredible spaces for their members.2021 was another challenging year for many of us, and the the CMX team is ready to celebrate our community. Every single nomination for this year's awards was incredibly impressive—the challenges, the resilience, the successes. You nominated over 400 people and companies for this year's awards season, proving that YOU are also ready to celebrate the incredible work being done in this industry.After all nominations were submitted and counted, we opened the vote up to the entire industry. We received over 20,000 votes! Thanks to everyone who participated and made their voices heard.Next, our panel of expert judges had a chance to read the nominations and cast their votes. We took into consideration the popular votes and, combined with the scores from our judges, determined the top 3 finalists in each category of the Community Industry Awards.On Community Manager Advancement Day on January 24, 2022, we awarded 14 incredible community builders and community-focused organizations with the recognition they deserve. These communities and community managers have been recognized for their excellence in community building and collaboration at the 2022 Community Industry Awards.Here are the Top Community Professionals and Communities of 2022!

The Best of the Year Awards

Think of these as essentially the Best Actor/Actress and Best Picture for the Community Industry Awards.

This year, we changed things up. The Best of the Year categories were chosen directly from the pool of nominees, and voted on by our expert judges!

Community Professional of the Year 2022

Sponsored by Bevy

Awarded to the best overall Community Professional. This is like the Best Actor and Actress categories.

Andreea Tomescu

UiPath

Community of the Year 2022

Sponsored by Bevy

Awarded to the best overall Community team. This is like the Best Picture category.

Esri

The CMX Awards

CMX Connect Chapter of the Year

Awarded to the CMX Connect chapter that showed exemplary growth, engagement, and success of their own chapter, as well as helping their community of fellow CMX Connect Hosts.

CMX Connect Colombia

Alex Parrales Arango and Juan Diego Castano

Communiteer of the Year

Awarded to the a member of the CMX Community who stood out as helpful to other members, contributing to the discussion spaces, and engaging with the community throughout the year.

Tirza Austin

ASCE

CMX'er of the Year

Awarded to the a member of the CMX Community who stood out as helpful to other members, contributing to the discussion spaces, and engaging with the community throughout the year.

Katie Ray

Clari

The Community Awards

The Community Awards are given to outstanding communities that are raising the bar for the industry. These include:

Customer Success Community of the Year

Sponsored by InSided

Awarded to a team building a customer success/support community

Blue Prism

Growth Marketing Community of the Year

Sponsored by Grazitti Interactive

Awarded to a team building an acquisition community, and using a community-driven marketing strategy.

Course Hero

User Group Program of the Year

Sponsored by Bevy

Awarded to a team building a distributed events, user group, chapter program

AWS User Groups

Best New Community 2022

Sponsored by Common Room

Awarded to a community that has shown significant growth and success since launching in 2021

Lenovo Legion

The Professional Awards

The Community Professional of the Year Awards are given to outstanding individuals working in community.

Executive Leader of a Community Team 2022

Sponsored by Higher Logic

Awarded to a Community Professional. This is like the Best Director category

Jayvee Nava

Peloton Interactive

Community Professional of the Year - Developer Relations

Sponsored by Discourse

Awarded to a Community Professional building a community for Developer Relations

Cherish Santoshi

SAWO Labs

Community Professional of the Year - Nonprofit Organization

Sponsored by Mobilize

Awarded to a Community Professional building a community for a nonprofit organization

Haneefah Abdurrahman Lekki

Ingressive For Good

Community Professional of the Year for - Gaming Community

Sponsored by Bramble

Awarded to a Community Professional building a community for a gaming organization

Mattie Fairchild

Manticore Games

Community Professional of the Year - Education Community

Sponsored by Influitive

Awarded to a Community Professional of an education organization, building a community

Shadab Ashraf

Udacity

Community Professional of the Year - B2B Community

Sponsored by Kissflow

Awarded to a Community Professional building a community in the B2B space.

Lauren Krawitz

Qualtrics

Here is what our 2022 finalists had to say:

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