Antonio Bernardo
Dean and John E. Anderson Chair, UCLA
Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award
Judges
Judges select a winner after reviewing finalist video interviews, comments from the review committee and supplemental materials.
Darnell Hunt
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UCLA
Jeanne Holm
Deputy Mayor, Finance and Innovation of the City of Los Angeles
Hans Mehn
Partner, Generation Investment Management
Abel Valenzuela Jr.
Interim Dean of Social Sciences and Professor, UCLA
Nominators
Nominators from around the world, selected for their own creativity and contributions in the environmental arena, each submit one candidate for the award.
Susan Alzner
Co-founder and Chief of Strategy & Operations, shift7
Shawn Escoffery
Executive Director of The Roy & Patricia Disney Foundation
Marcius Extavour
Chief Climate Solutions Officer, TIMECO2
Farwiza Farhan
Founder, HAkA
Mark Gold
Director of Water Scarcity Solutions, People & Communities Program for NRDC
Carlos Gutierrez
Chief Strategy Officer, Larta Institute
Resson Kantai Duff
Funding Director, Maliasili
Dawn Lippert
CEO, Elemental Excelerator
Asma Mahdi
Principal, Better World Group
Kathryn Mengerink
Executive Director, Waitt Institute
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Founder, Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad
Shonda Rhimes
Founder, Shondaland
James Ricci
Senior Program Scientist, Schmidt Futures
André Sanchez
Advisory Board Member & Regional Coordinator — Latino Outdoors | Community Engagement & Conservation Policy Manager — CalWild
M. Sanjayan
Chief Executive Officer, Conservation International
Timothy Watkins Sr.
President & Chief Executive Officer, Watts Labor Community Action Committee
Stephanie Wear
Senior Vice President, Moore Center for Science, Conservation International
Randall Winston
LA Deputy Mayor, Public Works
Review Committee
A diverse blend of UCLA faculty and leaders operating outside of UCLA evaluate the candidates and determine the three finalists.
Kyle Cavanaugh
UCLA Assistant Professor, Coastal and Marine Ecosystems
Angie Chen
Executive Director, Skyline Foundation
Justin D’Angona
Senior Manager, Partnerships & Impact, XPRIZE
Kealoha Fox
Senior Advisor, Institute for Climate & Peace
Noah Garrison
UCLA Practicum Director, Environmental Science
Nurit Katz
UCLA Chief Sustainability Officer
Cully Nordby
UCLA Associate Director, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability
Jack Pan
Founder and CEO, Ocean Motion Technologies
Casandra Rauser
UCLA Executive Director, Sustainable LA Grand Challenge
Viraj Sawant
UCLA Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability
Kelly Trott
Vice President of Deployment & Impact, Imagine H2O
Saba Waheed
UCLA Research Director, Labor Center
Tiana Williams-Claussen
Director, Wildlife Department of the Yurok Tribe
Virginia Zaunbrecher
UCLA Associate Director, Center for Tropical Research