Anousheh Ansari
CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation
Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award
Previous Judges
Four judges select a winner after reviewing finalist video interviews, faculty and executive committee scores, and supplemental materials from nominators.
Nicolas Berggruen
Chairman of Berggruen Holdings
Shawn Escoffery
Executive Director, The Roy & Patricia Disney Foundation
Chanell Fletcher
Deputy Executive Officer, Environmental Justice, CA Air Resources Board
Lori Garver
CEO, Earthrise Media
Eric Garcetti
Mayor of Los Angles
Kara Hurst
Head of Worldwide Sustainability at Amazon
Van Jones
Political Contributor at CNN
Ida Levine
Lead Expert, Policy and Regulation, Board of the Impact Investing Institute
Geof Rochester
Founder of GRC Advising
Wendy Schmidt
President of The Schmidt Family Foundation
Kathryn Sullivan
Former Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans & Atmosphere
Private: Kevin de León
Councilmember, Los Angeles City Council and Former President Pro Tempore, CA Senate
Previous Nominators
Twenty nominators from around the world, selected for their own creativity and contributions in the environmental arena, each submit one candidate for the award.
Lylianna Allala
Climate Justice Director at the City of Seattle’s Office
Ashley Boren
Executive Director of Sustainable Conservation
Karl Burkart
Director of Innovation, Media & Technology at The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
Hilary Cherner
Managing Director at Arabella
Crystal Hayling
Managing Director of Aspen Environment Leadership Program
Shlomy Kattan
Executive Director at XPRIZE Foundation
Katherine Keating
Chief Sustainability & Strategy Officer of Maverick
Bob Lalasz
CEO of Science+Story
Private: Emma Marris
Science Writer for National Geographic and New York Times
Tina May
Senior Director of Sustainability, Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Kelly Chapman Meyer
Trustee of the National Resources Defense Council
Oliver Morton
Environmental Editor at The Economist
Adán Ortega
Principal of Ortega Strategies Group
Elise Pearlstein
Senior Vice President of Documentary Film at Participant Media
Ted Richane
Senior Director, Strategy, Engagement & Impact at Vulcan Productions
Jeff Rosenthal
Co-Founder of Summit
D’Artagnan Scorza
Founder and Executive Director of Social Justice Learning Institute
David Skelly
Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History
Cindy Starrett
Partner at Latham and Watkins LLF
Mark Tercek
President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy
Tom Unterman
Chairman of California Community Foundation
Melani A. Walton
Co-founder of the Rob and Melani Walton Foundation
Hazel Wong
Director of Global Conservation Campains at The Nature Conservancy
Dawn Wright
Chief Scientist at Environmental Systems Research Institute
Martha Dina Argüello
Executive Director for Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles
Rudy Espinoza
Executive Director of Inclusive Action for the City
Johanna Partin
Deputy Director at the Building Decarbonization Coalition
Mary Ruckelshaus
Director of Natural Capital Project