Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award

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Pritzker Finalist Leah Penniman in Yahoo! Finance: America’s Black farmers work to uproot racism

Soul Fire Farm, is a “BIPoC-centered community farm” — the acronym standing for Black, Indigenous and People of Color. The 80-acre (32-hectare) farm was founded in 2011 by an African-American…

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Video: Pritzker Finalist Leah Penniman in Yahoo! New: This Farmer Is Determined To Use Food To Help End Racism & Injustice

Soul Fire Farm manager & co-director and 2020 Pritzker Award finalist Leah Penniman explains how the community training farm educates young people + delivers food to people in need.

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2020 Pritzker Finalist Leah Penniman in Mic: Our food system is broken and racist. Meet the farmers trying to change the way we eat

“You have to wonder how we as a society justify that approximately 98% of the farmable land in this country is white-owned,’ says 2020 Pritzker finalist and co-founder of Soul…

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Pritzker Finalist Clara Pratte in Good News Network: Solar-Powered Panels Pull Water Out of the Air For Navajo Families Who Have None

What if there was a way of pulling vapor from the atmosphere and bringing it through faucets as clean, drinkable water. Harnessing the power of the sun, Zero Mass Water’s…

2020 Pritzker finalists: Clara Pratte, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leah Penniman

The finalists represent a vast range of environmental issues and approaches. All of them are working to address past and ongoing injustices.

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2020 Pritzker Finalist Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner in The Conversation — Fridays for Future: how the young climate movement has grown since Greta Thunberg’s lone protest

The climate strike movement has grown into a network of global campaigns focused on systemic change to tackle the climate crisis. In the process, young people have outgrown the mainstream…