Rachel Carson Award
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The Rachel Carson Award is awarded each spring by the National Audubon Society's Women in Conservation to recognize "women whose immense talent, expertise, and energy greatly advance conservation and the environmental movement locally and globally". Honorees are drawn from diverse backgrounds, including the worlds of journalism, academics, business, science, entertainment, philanthropy and law.
Background
The award is named in honor of Rachel Carson, the undisputed founder of the modern environmental movement. Each year the Rachel Carson Award is created by Tiffany & Company. The Rachel Carson Awards Council was founded by Allison Whipple Rockefeller in 2004.
The award is presented to honorees each May at the Rachel Carson Award Luncheon, held annually at New York City's Plaza Hotel. Proceeds from the luncheon support Audubon's Long Island Sound Campaign, the Sound having undergone unprecedented pollution, habitat loss, and ecosystem disruption in recent years.
Audubon's Women in Conservation Program, in conjunction with Audubon's Rachel Carson Awards Council, supports a website which connects women to leaders in the environmental movement and to pressing environmental issues. Audubon's Women in Conservation also supports an internship program and hosts an educational school panel in which past Rachel Carson Award honorees speak at a local all-girls school.
Award recipients
2004 to 2009
| Year | Name | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Jayni Chase | Environmental activist, philanthropist |
| Lynn Chase | Wildlife artist, philanthropist | |
| Maria Rodale | Rodale Publishing, chairman | |
| Peggy M. Shepard | West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. executive director | |
| Alice Waters | Chef, author, restaurateur | |
| 2005 | Kay Kelley Arnold | Entergy Corporation, vice president of public affairs |
| Bernadette Castro | New York State Parks, recreation and historic preservation, former commissioner | |
| Mae Jemison | BioSentient Corporation, founder | |
| Margaret Wittenberg | Whole Foods Market, vice president of global communications and quality standards | |
| 2006 | Kathleen Bader | NatureWorks LLC, former president and CEO |
| Margie Ruddick | Environmental designer, founder of Margie Ruddick Landscape | |
| 2007 | Frances Beinecke | President of the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) |
| Majora Carter | Sustainable South Bronx, founder and executive director | |
| Laurie David | Global warming activist, producer, author | |
| Deirdre Imus | Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology, founder and president | |
| 2008 | Jean Clark, Norma Dana, Marguerite Purnell, Phyllis Cerf Wagner, and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers | Central Park Conservancy |
| Teresa Heinz Kerry | Philanthropist | |
| Bette Midler | New York Restoration Project, founder | |
| 2009 | Dr. Sylvia Earle | National Geographic 'Explorer in Residence'; Deep Search Foundation, founder |
| Sally Jewell | Secretary of the Interior | |
| Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam | Student Conservation Association, founding president | |
| Elizabeth Colleton, Jane Evans and Susan Haspel | NBC Universal's Green is Universal Initiative |
2010 to 2019
| Year | Name | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Suzanne Lewis | Yellowstone National Park, superintendent |
| Isabella Rossellini | Actress, director, writer and environmental activist | |
| Dr. Beth Stevens | Disney World Wide Services, Environmental Affairs, senior vice president | |
| Fernanda M. Kellogg | Tiffany & Co. Foundation, president | |
| 2011 | Maya Lin | Artist, architect and environmentalist |
| Sigourney Weaver | Actress and environmental activist | |
| 2012 | Sally Bingham | The Regeneration Project/Interfaith Power and Light, president |
| L. Hunter Lovins | Natural Capitalism Solutions, president | |
| Janette Sadik-Khan | New York City Department of Transportation, commissioner | |
| 2013 | Marian Heiskell | Conservationist and philanthropist |
| Lady Bird Johnson | First Lady and environmental pioneer | |
| 2014 | Ellen Futter | American Museum of Natural History, president |
| Kaiulani Lee | "A Sense of Wonder" playwright and performer | |
| Nell Newman | Newman’s Own Organics, co-founder and president | |
| 2015 | Warrie Price | Battery Park Conservancy, president and founder |
| Flo Stone | Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, president and founder | |
| 2016 | Dominique Browning | Moms Clean Air Force, co-founder and director |
| Rebecca Moore | Google Earth Outreach, founder and director | |
| Dr. Kathryn Sullivan | Oceans and Atmosphere, under secretary of commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, administrator | |
| 2017 | Jamie Rappaport Clark | Defenders of Wildlife, president and CEO |
| Dr Heidi Cullen | Climate Central, chief scientist | |
| Anne Thompson | NBC News, chief environmental affairs correspondent | |
| 2018 | Gina McCarthy | Public Health Practice, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, former EPA administrator and professor |
| Mary Powell | Vermont Green Mountain Power, president and CEO | |
| Dorceta Taylor | University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, director of diversity, equity and inclusion and James E. Crowfoot collegiate professor | |
| 2019 | Rose H. Harvey | |
| Garden Club of America |
2020 onwards
| Year | Name | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Lisa P. Jackson | Apple, Environment, policy, and social initiatives, vice president |
| Fern Shepard, | Rachel's Network, president | |
| Kristine McDivitt Tompkins | Tompkins Conservation, co-founder and president | |
| 2022 | Abigail Dillen | Earthjustice, president |
| 2023 | Susanne Durst | McEnroe Organic Farm |
| Kathleen Finlay | Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming, president; Pleiades, founder | |
| Laura O'Donohue | Snow Hill Farm, founder and CEO |