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Rachel Carson Award
Carson c.1940
Awarded forWomen in conservation and the environmental movement
CountryUSA
Presented byNational Audubon Society
First award2004; 22 years ago (2004)
WebsiteOfficial website

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".[1] Honorees are drawn from diverse backgrounds, including the worlds of journalism, academics, business, science, entertainment, philanthropy and law.[2]

Background

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The award is named in honor of Rachel Carson, the undisputed founder of the modern environmental movement.[3] 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.[4]

Award recipients

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2004 to 2009

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Year Name Role
2004 Jayni Chase Environmental activist, philanthropist
Lynn Chase Wildlife artist, philanthropist
Maria Rodale Rodale Publishing, chairman[5]
Peggy M. Shepard[6] West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. executive director
Alice Waters[7] 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[8] 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[9] President of the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Majora Carter[10] Sustainable South Bronx, founder and executive director
Laurie David[11] Global warming activist, producer, author
Deirdre Imus[12] 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[13][14] Secretary of the Interior
Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam[15] Student Conservation Association, founding president
Elizabeth Colleton, Jane Evans and Susan Haspel NBC Universal's Green is Universal Initiative

2010 to 2019

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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[16] Artist, architect and environmentalist
Sigourney Weaver Actress and environmental activist
2012 Sally Bingham[17] The Regeneration Project/Interfaith Power and Light, president
L. Hunter Lovins Natural Capitalism Solutions, president
Janette Sadik-Khan[18] New York City Department of Transportation, commissioner
2013 Marian Heiskell[19] Conservationist and philanthropist
Lady Bird Johnson[20] First Lady and environmental pioneer
2014 Ellen Futter[21] American Museum of Natural History, president
Kaiulani Lee[22] "A Sense of Wonder" playwright and performer
Nell Newman[23] 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[24] Moms Clean Air Force, co-founder and director
Rebecca Moore[25] 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[26] Defenders of Wildlife, president and CEO
Dr Heidi Cullen[27] Climate Central, chief scientist
Anne Thompson[28] NBC News, chief environmental affairs correspondent
2018 Gina McCarthy[29] Public Health Practice, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, former EPA administrator and professor
Mary Powell[30] Vermont Green Mountain Power, president and CEO
Dorceta Taylor[31] 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

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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

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