All Winners
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Riya ChandraHastings-on-Hudson, New YorkWinning year: 2023 Getting Black and Brown girls outdoors |
William CharouhisMiami, FloridaWinning year: 2023 Advocating for mangrove restoration in coastal areas |
Maanit GoelSammamish, WashingtonWinning year: 2023 Speaking up for orcas |
Katherine Martínez MedinaVieques, Puerto RicoWinning year: 2023 Promoting food sovereignty and mutual aid |
Muskan WaliaSalt Lake City, UtahWinning year: 2023 Ushering in a clean energy transition in Utah schools |
Angelina XuClarksburg, MarylandWinning year: 2023 Tackling food waste at schools |
Ilana CohenBoston, MassachusettsWinning year: 2022 Organizing for Fossil Fuel Divestment |
Lauren U.C. EjiagaNew Orleans, LouisianaWinning year: 2022 Supporting STEM Education in Louisiana |
Amara IfejiBangor, MaineWinning year: 2022 Bringing New Voices into |
Raghav KalyanaramanPlano, TexasWinning year: 2022 Restoring the North Texas |
Hamid TorabzadehLong Beach, CaliforniaWinning year: 2022 Advancing Disaster Preparedness and Environmental Justice |
Annika WeberSeattle, WashingtonWinning year: 2022 Pushing for Carbon Neutrality |
David BaldwinFort Lauderdale, FLWinning year: 2021 Seeking Solutions to Invasive Weeds |
Alexandria GordonSt. Petersburg, FLWinning year: 2021 Inspiring Campuses to Go Plastic-Free |
Alexia LeclercqAustin, TXWinning year: 2021 Bridging the Gap Between Climate Education and Action |
Sonja MichalukPrinceton, NJWinning year: 2021 Encouraging Rigorous Citizen Science |
Peter PhamSan Jose, CAWinning year: 2021 Advocating for Transit Justice |
Artemisio Romero y CarverSanta Fe, NMWinning year: 2021 Pushing for Smart Climate Policy |
Danielle BoyerTroy, MIWinning year: 2020 Bringing STEAM Education to Indigenous Youth |
Alexandra CollinsHinsdale, ILWinning year: 2020 Battling Cancer-Causing Air Pollution |
Haana EdenshawHaida GwaiiWinning year: 2020 Suing Canada for Its Role in the Climate Crisis |
Diego Arreola FernándezMexico City, MexicoWinning year: 2020 Fostering Environmental Activism in Mexico |
Chander PayneBethesda, MDWinning year: 2020 Helping Marginalized Youth Grow Food |
Isabella WallmowAndover, MNWinning year: 2020 Creating a Healing Space for Incarcerated Youth |
Isha ClarkeOakland, CAWinning year: 2019 Fighting the development of a coal plant in West Oakland |
Mackenzie FeldmanHonolulu, HIWinning year: 2019 Working to ban pesticides in schools |
Lia HarelMinnetonka, MNWinning year: 2019 Organizing a youth environmental movement in Minnesota |
Isra HirsiMinneapolis, MNWinning year: 2019 Leading a nationwide climate strike |
Shannon LisaAvenel, NJWinning year: 2019 Investigating chemicals that lead to cancer |
Tammy RamosLos Angeles, CAWinning year: 2019 Challenging oil refinery pollution in a low income community |
Jade SweeneyJacksonville, NCWinning year: 2018 Supporting our key pollinators |
Mishka BanuriSalt Lake City, UTWinning year: 2018 Intersectional organizing for climate justice |
Rose WhippleSt. Paul, MNWinning year: 2018 Speaking up against oil pipelines on Indigenous lands |
Stephen O’HanlonDowningtown, PAWinning year: 2018 Communicating the need for political action |
Tina OhSackville, New BrunswickWinning year: 2018 Amplifying narratives of frontline communities |
Valeree CatangayLong Beach, CAWinning year: 2018 Advocating for a more inclusive environmental movement |
Anthony TorresBabylon, NYWinning year: 2017 Inspiring communities to demand climate action |
Charlie JiangWashington D.C.Winning year: 2017 Pushing Wall Street to make just investments |
Dejah PowellChicago, ILWinning year: 2017 Fostering a love for the environment |
Anne LeeSammamish, WAWinning year: 2017 Challenging schools to adopt low carbon solutions |
Dineen O’RourkeEast Quogue, NYWinning year: 2017 Encouraging non-violent, direct action |
Mercedes Thompson and Claire WaynerBaltimore, MDWinning year: 2017 Working towards a plastic-free Maryland |
Heidi KritzDillingham, AKWinning year: 2016 Fueling a decade-long fight to protect Bristol Bay |
Erica DavisKnoxville, TNWinning year: 2016 Advocating for frontline communities in Tennessee |
Susette OnateHialeah, FLWinning year: 2016 Fostering stewardship through a native butterfly garden |
Karina GonzalezFlagstaff, AZWinning year: 2016 Leading inclusive divestment efforts in Arizona |
Xerxes LibschWhite Plains, NYWinning year: 2016 Restoring and creating an educational wild space |
Will AmosIrvine, CAWinning year: 2016 Engineering possibility for impactful change |
Ryan CameroStockton, CAWinning year: 2015 Using creative storytelling to chronicle a fragile delta and the communities that surround it |
Celeste TinajeroSparks, NVWinning year: 2015 Making impactful and lasting changes through greening a high school campus |
Kate WeinerWhite Plains, NYWinning year: 2015 Creating an alternative space for environmental media through a student-run arts collective |
Dyanna JayeCharlottesville, VAWinning year: 2015 Mobilizing a civically engaged environmental youth coalition |
Jess Grady-BensonClaremont, CAWinning year: 2015 Fostering fossil fuel divestment campaigns on college campuses through student training |
JP ViñalsBronx, NYWinning year: 2015 Energizing a campaign for urban green spaces through youth engagement |
Sean RussellNorth Port, FLWinning year: 2014 Launching an educational campaign about marine debris |
Doorae ShinHonolulu, HIWinning year: 2014 Working towards a ban on Styrofoam use in Hawai‘i |
Tsechu DolmaWoodside, NYWinning year: 2014 Creating a model for sustainable food security in Upper Mustang, Nepal |
Jackson KoeppelHighland Park, MIWinning year: 2014 Building community resilience through solar powered infrastructure |
Lynnea ShuckFremont, CAWinning year: 2014 Propelling childhood curiosity into lasting environmental stewardship |
Tiffany CareyDetroit, MIWinning year: 2014 Engaging youth in solutions-based, citizen-science projects |
Amira OdehSan Juan, PRWinning year: 2013 Fostering sustainable water consumption at the University of Puerto Rico’s Rio Piedras campus |
Chloe MaxminNobleboro, MEWinning year: 2013 Challenging one of the oldest higher education institutions in the U.S. to divest from fossil fuels |
Cassandra LinWesterly, RIWinning year: 2013 Connecting the dots between community needs and biofuel waste for an unconventional solution |
Alex FreidDurham, NHWinning year: 2013 Launching resourceful student led programs on college campuses to reduce waste and encourage reuse |
Jonathan FerrerBrooklyn, NYWinning year: 2013 Generating climate awareness and resiliency amongst New York City's youth |
Arielle KlagsbrunSt. Louis, MOWinning year: 2013 Mobilizing communities to create a healthy future free of dependence on big coal |
Jacob GlassGlastonbury, CTWinning year: 2012 Documenting grassroots wilderness protection efforts in Montana's Scotchman Peaks |
Maya SalsedoSanta Cruz, CAWinning year: 2012 Empowering youth with powerful tools to advocate for a just food system |
Asa NeedleWorcester, MAWinning year: 2012 Addressing lead contamination in inner-city neighborhoods |
Ryland KingGoleta, CAWinning year: 2012 Sparking creative environmental engagement amongst elementary school students |
Martin FigueroaLos Angeles, CAWinning year: 2012 Inspiring campus-wide water conservation in California's arid Central Valley |
Brittany StallworthWashington, DCWinning year: 2012 Fostering an ethos of health & wellbeing through student activism in her Howard University community |
Junior WalkWhitesville, WVWinning year: 2011 Challenging big coal's power in Appalachia |
Kyle ThiermannSanta Cruz, CAWinning year: 2011 Surfing for global change |
Tania PulidoRichmond, CAWinning year: 2011 Cultivating green spaces for healthy neighborhoods |
Rhiannon Tomtishen & Madison VorvaAnn Arbor, MIWinning year: 2011 Campaigning for orangutan habitat protection |
Alexander EpsteinPhiladelphia, PAWinning year: 2011 Empowering equitable community growth in Philadelphia |
Victor DavilaBronx, NYWinning year: 2011 Activating youth engagement through skateboarding |
Misra WalkerBronx, NYWinning year: 2010 Lobbying for access to green spaces in Hunts Point |
Varsha VijayCoralville, IAWinning year: 2010 Capturing and sharing knowledge to preserve Waorani land and culture |
Ana Elisa Peréz-QuinteroSan Juan, PRWinning year: 2010 Leading a network of environmental education programs in Puerto Rico |
De’Anthony JonesSan Francisco, CAWinning year: 2010 Through the group Environmental Service Learning Initiative (ESLI), an organization that works in seven public high schools in San Francisco, De’Anthony has worked to connect social justice and g... |
Marcus GrignonKeshena, WIWinning year: 2010 Encouraging sustainability on the Menominee Reservation |
Freya ChayKenai, AKWinning year: 2010 In September 2009, Freya learned that the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly had passed a resolution supporting the idea of exempting renewable energy systems from real property tax assessments. But ... |
Hai VoIrvine, CAWinning year: 2009 Hai Vo co-founded the Real Food Challenge (RFC) at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) after he radically tra... |
Adarsha ShivakumarPleasant Hill, CAWinning year: 2009 Adarsha recognized the complex relationship between the economy and the environment. In December of 2007, he co-founded Projec... |
Diana LopezSan Antonio, TXWinning year: 2009 Diana Lopez organizes with the Southwest Workers Union for worker rights, environmental justi... |
Alec LoorzVentura, CAWinning year: 2009 Alec first saw Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” when he was 12 years old. Inspired by the message, Alec wrote to the organization and applied to be a presenter, but was den... |
Sierra Crane-MurdochMiddlebury, VTWinning year: 2009 Sierra co-founded Power Past Coal along with forty grassroots activists personally impacted by the mining, processing... |
Robin BryanWinnipeg, MBWinning year: 2009 Robin lives in close proximity to the world’s largest single land storehouse of carbon and most abundant source of fresh water, the boreal forest of the East Shore Wilderness Area in Manitoba, Ca... |
Ivan StiefelMullica Hill, NJWinning year: 2008 Ivan spearheaded the creation of an alternative spring break for university students to stand in solidarity with communities affected by coal industry abuses in Appalachia. In 2007, the... |
Phebe MeyersWoodstock, VTWinning year: 2008 Growing up, Phebe noticed fewer songbirds at her Vermont feeders each year and became inspired to find the cause. The answer lay in the deforested pastures of Costa Rica that were once stunning r... |
Kari FultonWashington, DCWinning year: 2008 Kari worked on two different environmental justice projects that connect and inspire people on both the local and national levels. On the local level, she co-founded the Loving Our City, Loving O... |
Timothy DenHerder-ThomasSt. Paul, MNWinning year: 2008 Timothy demonstrated that climate solutions are bold opportunities for economic profit and community building as opposed to personal sacrifices. He spearheaded the creation of the ... |
Jessie-Ruth CorkinsBristol, VTWinning year: 2008 Jessie-Ruth is the core leader of the Vermont Sustainable Heating Initiative (VSHI), a group of students representing 200... |
Marisol BecerraChicago, ILWinning year: 2008 In 2003, Marisol volunteered with Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) to map and inventory ... |
Jon WarnowBurlington, VTWinning year: 2007 Jon’s passion for tackling the Earth’s climate crisis was the basis for his role in Step It Up 2007. This project used the Internet to stage a highly coordinated National Day of Climate Actio... |
Carlos MorenoBoston, MAWinning year: 2007 Carlos understood the seriousness of youth violence as an environmental justice issue because of its tremendous impact on where and how we live. In 2001, the state funding for after school progra... |
Alexander LinWesterly, RIWinning year: 2007 In 2004, Alex read an alarming Wall Street Journal article about the growing E-Waste crisis. When he was nine, Alex had co-created a community service team called ... |
Q’orianka KilcherSanta Monica, CAWinning year: 2007 Q’orianka is a filmmaker and actress of Peruvian ancestry who has used her celebrity to draw attention to pressing human rights and environmental injustices. Of special concern to her was Los A... |
Erica FernandezOxnard, CAWinning year: 2007 When Erica found out that a liquefied natural gas facility was proposed for the coast of Oxnard and Malibu with a 36-inch pipeline routed through low-income neighborhoods, she was outraged. She wor... |
Rachel BargeBerkeley, CAWinning year: 2007 Rachel was an avid contributor to various environmental initiatives at the University of California, Berkeley beginning in her freshman year. She realized that one underlying factor preventing he... |
Ruben VogtEl Paso, TXWinning year: 2006 http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=24338 Ruben believed that students are most... |
Elissa SmithOttawa, OntarioWinning year: 2006 http://elissasmith.ca/ Elissa witnessed firsthand the impact climate change had on her hometown environment: the Gre... |
Alberta NellsFlagstaff, AZWinning year: 2006 http://www.savethepeaks.org A youth leader of the Navajo Nation, Alberta worked with Youth of the Peaks to mob... |
Karoline Evin McMullenChesterland, OHWinning year: 2006 http://www.saveourstream.org/ Evin grew up playing in rivers and streams and gained first-hand knowledge abou... |
May BoeveMiddlebury, VTWinning year: 2006 May Boeve led Middlebury College’s action-oriented environmental and social justice group, the “Sunday Night Group”. In January 2005, May was inspired by “What Works: Building t... |
Jessica AssafSan Rafael, CAWinning year: 2006 Jessica was shocked to learn that many personal care products contain chemicals that have been linked to cancer and reproductive ailments. Working with the Teens for Safe Cosmetics Campaign, Jess... |
Zander SrodesPlacidia, FLWinning year: 2005 When Zander was not sailing or golfing in his hometown of Placidia, Florida, he was doing everything he could to save the loggerhead sea turtles from extinction, reptiles which weigh up to 350 poun... |
La Constance ShahidSan Francisco, CAWinning year: 2005 http://www.lejyouth.org/youth_slough.php4 La Constance Shahid was a breath of fresh air in her inner-city San Fr... |
Daniel RosenFlagstaff, AZWinning year: 2005 http://www.nativemovement.org In 2003 Daniel traveled to the Navajo Reservation in Pinon, Arizona to attend ... |
Jessica RimingtonCotuit, MAWinning year: 2005 http://www.oneworldyouthproject.org At 19, Jessica Rimington visited South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, M... |
Andrea GarzaAlbuquerque, NMWinning year: 2005 Andrea was only thirteen years old when she founded Esperanza Unida, a group focused on social and environmental justice issues in Brownsville, Texas, where she grew up. The group began its politic... |
Kayla Carpenter & Erika ChaseHoopa, CAWinning year: 2005 Friends since the fourth grade, Erika and Kayla were always active in their hometown of 4,000 people. They both worked on their school yearbook, participated in the Youth Tribal Council, and organi... |
Shadia WoodNew York, NYWinning year: 2004 http://www.kidsagainstpollution.net At age seven, Shadia attended a kids’ conference on Superfund si... |
Christina WongSacramento, CAWinning year: 2004 http://www.ecovote.org/index.html Alarmed by the rollback of environmental protection laws, Christina Won... |
Eugene PearsonBoulder, COWinning year: 2004 When a budget crisis forced the state to cut funds to its schools, University of Colorado officials approached the student council to ask for a fee hike crucial to financing construction of four ne... |
Billy ParishNew Haven, CTWinning year: 2004 After dropping out of Yale in early 2003, Billy Parish rallied students at hundreds of colleges around the Northeast to take on global warming. The Climate Campaign was aimed at getting colleges ... |
Hannah McHardySeattle, WAWinning year: 2004 When Hannah McHardy’s family moved to the Pacific Northwest from Arkansas, Hannah fell in love with the forests of her new home. When she learned that western Washington’s schools were largely ... |
Lily DongSouth Pasadena, CAWinning year: 2004 Born in China, Lily came to Southern California with her family when she was ten. In seventh grade, Lily began what became a four-year crusade to protect and restore the last remaining undeveloped ... |
Thomas NicholsCorrales, NMWinning year: 2003 In junior high school, Thomas conceived and implemented a program to preserve the fragile Rio Grande ecosystem by wrapping chicken wire around threatened cottonwood trees to protect them from beave... |
Illai KenneyJonesboro, GAWinning year: 2003 http://www.kidsagainstpollution.net Illai co-founded Georgia Kids Against Pollution in response to the... |
Andrew HuntBethesda, MDWinning year: 2003 Andrew established a statewide network of student environmental activists transforming the state’s college and high school environmental clubs into a united force to affect public policy in M... |
Whitney CushingHomer, AKWinning year: 2003 http://www.akcenter.org/take_action/youth_action.html In a state known for its hostil... |
Andrew AzmanOwings Mills, MDWinning year: 2003 http://www.cubiodiesel.org Andrew founded CU Biodiesel, working to switch the bus fleets of the University of Colorad... |
Rachel AckoffClaremont, CAWinning year: 2003 As the Fair Trade Campaign Coordinator for the Sierra Student Coalition, Rachel organized a series of trainings to give student and adult activists across the country the tools to work for a global... |
Nathan WyethChevy Chase, MDWinning year: 2002 Nathan co-founded and chaired the Sierra Student Coalition’s Student Action on the Global Economy (SAGE) Program, created in response to the environmental threats posed by the current model o... |
Ethan SchafferSagle, IDWinning year: 2002 http://www.OrganicVolunteers.com Ethan created Organic Volunteers, a national outreach and education prog... |
Amir NadavEagan, MNWinning year: 2002 High school junior Amir Nadav initiated and led a campaign to reduce Minnesota students’ exposure to dangerous diesel exhaust. His efforts culminated in the passage of statewide legislation t... |
Stefanie LacyBandera, TXWinning year: 2002 Stefanie Lacy knew that Bandera, Texas, was more than just a cowboy town that cared about ranching and rodeos. So in the self-proclaimed “Cowboy Capital of the World,” this determined h... |
Max HarperHotchkiss, COWinning year: 2002 Max Harper developed a Sustainable Living Theme House at Colorado College to engage students and administrators in environmental sustainability and to build a community epicenter of campus activism... |
Jessian ChoySanta Cruz, CAWinning year: 2002 Jessian Choy founded the Student Environmental Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to promote ongoing campus greening on a variety of issue... |
Grayson SchleppegrellCharleston, SCWinning year: 2001 As a fifth-grader, Grayson emerged as a leader in a national campaign to rescue endangered swordfish populations off the eastern United States, which were threatened with commercial extinction by i... |
Heide IravaniCharlotte, NCWinning year: 2001 Heide founded and led a school-based chapter of the environmental group Free the Planet!, serving as a local organizer in a market-based campaign to protect forests in the southeast United States f... |
Robert FishBar Harbor, MEWinning year: 2001 Rob successfully led campus activists in a market-based, non-violent direct action campaign against retailers of old-growth and endangered forest products. He then turned their attention to the pra... |
Jared DuvalLebanon, NHWinning year: 2001 In his junior year, Jared founded and coordinated Students for a Sustainable Future. The group was involved in a number of issues, including global warming, composting, and recycling. As a senior, ... |
Angela CoryellBaring, WAWinning year: 2001 As part of a high school communications class, Angela came up with the idea for, produced, and directed an award-winning documentary film called An Oily Sky, chronicling the history and hazards of ... |
Deland ChanNew York City, NYWinning year: 2001 Deland undertook the restoration of the Native Species Garden in Inwood Hill Park, the last nine acres of natural forest in Manhattan. |
Bethany LarueGroveport, OHWinning year: 2000 Bethany's passion helped to save a delicate six-acre wooded wetland. |
Ariana KatovichBerkeley, CAWinning year: 2000 Ariana created an innovative fund on her campus to protect and restore shorelines. |
Dave KarpfPhiladelphia, PAWinning year: 2000 Dave's dynamic leadership in the Sierra Student Coalition inspired young environmentalists through the United States. |
Matt EwingChicago, ILWinning year: 2000 Matt successfully mobilized college students to press Iowa legislators to get informed about critical environmental issues. |
Tamica DavisDorchester, MAWinning year: 2000 Tamica organized a march to raise awareness about the impact of poor air quality on community health. |
Barbara BrownVictoria, TXWinning year: 2000 Barbara launched the "Don't Be Crude" program collecting over 6000 gallons of used oil and hydraulic fluid. |