Anousheh Ansari
CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation
Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award
Judges
Judges select a winner after reviewing finalist video interviews, faculty scores and supplemental materials.
Chanell Fletcher
Deputy Executive Officer, Environmental Justice, CA Air Resources Board
Ida Levine
Lead Expert, Policy and Regulation, Board of the Impact Investing Institute
Kara Hurst
Head of Worldwide Sustainability at Amazon
Lori Garver
CEO of Earthrise Media
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 & Ops at shift7
Aimee Barnes
Director of policy lab at Elemental Excelerator
David Biello
Science Curator for TED
Chisato Fukuda Calvert
Strategic partnership director of SINAI Technologies
Jaime Carlson
Strategy & Investment, Softbank Energy
Cassie Crockett
Director and Head of Strategy at Schmidt Futures
Debbie Franco
Managing Director of the Water Solutions Network
Carlos Gutierrez
Chief Strategy Officer at Larta Institute
Amy Hunter
Global Head of Sustainability at BlackRock
Andy Karsner
Senior Strategist of X, the innovation lab of Alphabet Inc
Yvette Lopez-Ledesma
Senior director of community-led conservation at The Wilderness Society
Steve McCormick
Managing Director, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Kathryn Mengerink
Executive Director at the Waitt Institute
M. Sanjayan
Chief Executive Officer at Conservation International
Geneva E.B. Thompson
Assistant Secretary of Tribal Affairs at CA Natural Resources Agency
Ami Vitale
Writer, Photographer and Filmmaker for National Geographic
Stephanie Wear
Marine Ecologist at The Nature Conservancy
Steve Westly
Founder and Managing Partner of The Westly Group
Randall Winston
Attorney at O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Faculty Committee
A committee of UCLA faculty and leaders representing a wide range of disciplines and fields evaluate each candidate.
Paul Brandano
Executive Director of UCLA's Master of Science in Business Analytics
Kyle Cavanaugh
Assistant Professor of Coastal and Marine Ecosystems
Noah Garrison
Environmental Science Practicum Director
Thomas Gillespie
Professor of Geography
Eric Hoek
Faculty Director of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge
Nurit Katz
Chief Sustainability Officer at UCLA
Stephanie Pincetl
Founding Director of California Center for Sustainable Communities
Casandra Rauser
Executive Director of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge
Danny Snelson
Affiliate Faculty of Laboratory of Environmental Narrative Strategies
Alex Spataru
Affiliate faculty Samueli School of Engineering
Saba Waheed
Research Director at the Labor Center
Virginia Zaunbrecher
Associate Director of Center for Tropical Research