Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award News and Events — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA — Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA

9.2.2025

For frogs and family

From childhood explorations in the Mojave to tackling the chytrid fungus, 2025 Pritzker Award finalist Anthony Waddle charts a path of science, memory and conservation

8.26.2025

Healing mother earth, healing ourselves

Economist-turned-entrepreneur Denica Riadini-Flesch, a 2025 Pritzker Award finalist, reflects on how she left conventional models of growth to build a regenerative fashion movement

8.14.2025

2025 Pritzker Award finalists: Anthony Waddle, Denica Riadini-Flesch, Seema Lokhandwala

Three innovators from Australia, Indonesia and India are redefining how to protect wildlife, restore ecosystems and build equitable futures

The 2025 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Finalists, from left to right: Denica Riadini-Flesch, Anthony Waddle, and Seema Lokhandwala, stand in front of a colorful, vibrant landscape of purple, orange and green flowers under neath a light blue and white sky.

8.7.2025

Meet the 2025 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Candidates #10–13

Building climate solutions from fungi, sediment, timber and uranium, four leaders under 40 show what next-generation innovation looks like in today's world

Two golden-green frogs sit side by side on bark, facing forward with orange eyes and glossy skin. Likely green and golden bell frogs (Litoria aurea), photographed in a natural setting. Image courtesy of Anthony Waddle.

8.5.2025

Meet the 2025 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Candidates #6–9

These four nominees are focused on housing, conservation, fashion and public space — tackling environmental issues by redesigning how systems work at the local level

7.31.2025

Meet the 2025 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award candidates #1–5

These five mid-career leaders are creating climate solutions in areas and communities often left out of conventional planning

Kerllen da Silva Freitas Costa stands on a narrow canoe outfitted with solar panels, steering through tall grasses in a remote wetland under a clear blue sky.