2024 Lunch & Learn: Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award Finalists

Join us for a panel discussion featuring the finalists of the Eighth Annual Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award

This event offers attendees a unique opportunity to hear directly from the 2024 finalists as they share their insights and experiences. Learn how they are working to create impactful, long-term solutions for the environmental issues that affect communities and ecosystems worldwide.

Event Details

Date: October 30, 2024

Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST

Location: UCLA James West Alumni Center, Founder’s Room

Complimentary lunch will be provided

About the Finalists

Nina Gualinga co-founded Mujeres Amazónicas (Amazonian Women), an indigenous rights group in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Made up of over 100 women from various nationalities in the region, the group focuses on peaceful resistance and policy advocacy to confront infringements on environmental sustainability, indigenous rights and women’s well-being.

Adenike Oladosu, a Nigerian ecofeminist and climate justice leader, advocates for women’s issues like excessive unpaid work to get water and firewood to allow them to participate more in environmental protection and conservation. In sub-Saharan Africa, women spend 40 billion hours each year just to search for water.

Callie Veelenturf is a marine biologist and executive director of The Leatherback Project, which combats environmental crises with a special focus on the seven species of leatherback sea turtle, four of which are critically endangered due to environmental problems such as plastic pollution, loss of nesting habitat and the fishing industry.

About the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award

Candidates are nominated by prominent environmental leaders from around the globe, all of whom recognize their potential to drive lasting change. An expert of committee of judges select a winner, who will be announced this year at the October 30th ceremony. The winner will receive a $100,000 prize, made possible by the generous support of the Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation.