Judges
The Anthem Awards judges are intellectually diverse leaders in their field who are excited about purpose & mission-driven work because they’re doing it, too. The judges span expertise across causes such as human rights, education, health, arts and culture, and so much more.
View the complete list of judges on IADAS, the official judging body for The Anthem Awards.
FEATURED JUDGES
Daniel Dae Kim
Actor, Producer & Activist
Mitchell Baker
CEO & Chairwoman, Mozilla
Shayla Tait
Director of Philanthropy The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation
Lisa Sherman
President & CEO, Ad Council
Marc Ecko
CCO & Board Member, XQ + Emerson Collective
Courteney Monroe
President, National Geographic Partners
Ashley Judd
Author, Actor, and Social Justice Humanitarian
Maitrayee Bhattacharyya
Senior Associate Dean of the College for Diversity and Inclusion Brown University
Gerald Chertavian
CEO, Year Up
ANTHEM JUDGES
Meet all of our recent judges who bring their professional expertise and insight to this work. We would like to thank the entire judging body for their ongoing participation. If you are a leader working on purpose or mission-driven work and would like to become an Anthem Judge, please apply here.
- Jad Finck
Vice President of Innovation & Sustainability, Allbirds - Christopher Miller
Head of Global Activism Strategy, Ben & Jerry's - Deborah Donaldson
Head of NA Marketplace Strategy, Nike - Dev Sethi
Head of Sports, Instagram - Melissa Potter
Vice President, Social Impact, ViacomCBS / MTV Entertainment Group - James Heighington
Global Lead of Strategy, Policy & Narrative, Google - Carl Desir
Director, Inclusion Strategy, Netflix - Rashmi Vikram
Chief Equity Officer, APAC, Dentsu International - Tiffany Edwards
Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Droga5 - Jennifer R. Sengupta
Global Manager, Digital and Social Communications, Mars - Chloe Barnes
Curation Standards (Representation & Inclusion), Twitter - Lawrence Lessig
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School - Dami Osunsanya
Vice President, Head of Value Creation, SoftBank Investment Advisors - Vishal Dheiman
Head Of Innovation, BBDO - Marianne Stefanowicz
Chief Communications Officer, TBWA\Media Arts Lab - Felecia Hatcher
CEO, Black Ambition - Liana Douillet Guzmán
Chief Marketing Officer, Skillshare - Ezinne Okoro
Global Chief Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Officer, Wunderman Thompson - Emma McDonald
Head of Creative, Purpose - Ali Rez
Regional ECD, Impact BBDO - Eran Nir
VP Creative, The Factory @ UM Digital Tel Aviv - Maritza Davis
Vice President, Experiences and Social Responsibility, Sacramento Kings - Jennifer Edwards
Senior Director of Digital, Color of Change - Terry Macko
Senior Vice President, Communications and Marketing, World Wildlife Fund - Sarah Kate Ellis
President & CEO, GLAAD - Rachel Hill
Philanthropy Advisor, Planned Parenthood Federation of America - Heidi Arthur
Chief Campaign Development Officer, The Ad Council - Michelle Egan
Chief Strategy Officer, NRDC - Katie Nelson
Sr Producer, Apple News - Nimo Awil
Creative Director, MediaMonks - Sky Dylan-Robbins
Founder, Executive Director, The Video Consortium - Tara Roth
President, Goldhirsh Foundation - Ari Kuschnir
Founder/Managing Partner, m ss ng p eces - Chrissie Lamond
Executive Director, Digital Marketing and Strategy, Fast Company - Trovon Williams
Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications, NAACP - Gabriel Reilich
Head of Content & Innovation, GOOD | Upworthy - John McPartland
Creative Director, Havas Lynx - Elaine Park Andrade
SVP, ECD, Warner Media Group - Mitu Yima
Digital Director, Born This Way Foundation - Jessica Lacombe
Director of Creative Content, NationSwell Studio - Kirsten Rutherford
Group Creative Director, TBWA Chiat Day - Bill Cromie
Managing Director, Blue Ridge Labs Robin Hood Foundation - Tara McGowan
Founder & CEO, Acronym - Noopur Agarwal
Vice President, Social Impact, ViacomCBS - Miguel Castro
Strategy Lead - Global Media Partnerships, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Elizabeth Nielsen
SVP, Digital and Direct Marketing, Feeding America - Henry Donahue
Executive Director, Save the Music - Russlynn Ali
CEO & Co-Founder, XQ Institute - Kirstyn Nimmo
Founder & Managing Director, GOOD WORX - Miriam Fogelson
Acting Director, Harvest - Maria Choi
Founder & CEO, Raise for Good - Juliana Uribe
Founder, Movilizatorio - Renee Miller
Associate Director of Creative Strategy & Inclusive Marketing, Code & Theory - Alex Amouyel
Executive Director, MIT Solve - Jon Murray
Associate Creative Director, BBDO Los Angeles - Tash Rosehill
Associate Creative Director, MediaMonks - Brian Latt
Managing Partner, m ss ng p eces - Alicia Eastman
Co-founder and Managing Director, InterContinental Energy - Chris Long
Athlete, Podcaster & Activist - Amy Bruckman
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology - Mick Ebeling
Founder & CEO, Not Impossible Labs - Zeda Stone
CEO, RYOT - Janeya Griffin
Co-Founder, ConCreates, Inc. - Renata Erlikhman
Chief Investment Officer, OW Management - The Honorable Alexis Herman
Chair and Chief Executive Officer, New Ventures, LLC - Ronaldo Jardim
Creative Director, Spark - Marianne Stefanowicz
Chief Communications Officer, TBWA\Media Arts Lab - Katherine Miller
Principal & Founder, Table 81 - Pip Jamieson
Founder & CEO, The Dots - Luvvie Ajayi Jones
NYT Bestselling Author, Speaker, Podcast Host - Felecia Hatcher
CEO, Black Ambition - Jeff Nelson
CTO and Co-Founder, Blavity Inc. - Erika Soto Lamb
VP Social Impact, Comedy Central - Rebekah Shrestha
Senior Vice President, Managing Director Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact and Office of Strategic Planning, 92 Street Y - Alaina Percival
CEO and Board Chair, Women Who Code - Susan Young
Executive Creative Director, BBDO - Julia Pontecorvo
Producer, A24 - Stephanie Chang
Global Editorial Director, The Trust at The Wall Street Journal | Barron's Group - Elise Smith
Co-Founder, Praxis Labs - Alberto Means
Strategy Director, SYPartners - Layla F Saad
Author, #MeAndWhiteSupremacy - Caroline Christopher
Head of Programming, Sounds True - Leila Brier
Founder, Sidebar - Abby Ellis
Director, PBS - Maxwell Zorick
Senior Director of Social Impact, MTV Entertainment Group - Heather McGeory
Global Lead Climate & Sustainability, APCO Worldwide - Sherry Turkle
Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self - Eytan Oren
Founder, We Are Block Party - Andrew Cary
VP, Digital, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Jennifer Pahlka
Founder, Code for America - Dino Myers-Lamptey
Founder, The Barber Shop - Andrew Kou
Co-Founder, Hyphen Media - Jill Applebaum
Chief Creative Officer, Wunderman Thompson New York - Amy Bruckman
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology - Britney Abrahams
Host, You Had Me at Black - Mick Ebeling
Founder & CEO, Not Impossible Labs - Bayyina Black
Global Sustainability & Impact Manager, R/GA - Christian Guirnalda
Director, Verizon 5G Labs & Innovation Center - Brian Lightbody
Creative Director, RYOT Studio - Iris Andrews
Founder, New Constellations - Brendan Doherty
Managing Director, KNGDM - Matthew Weinberg
Principal, Max Ventures - David Mesfin
Creative Director, Innocean USA - Chris Long
Athlete, Eagles - Jennifer Pahlka
Founder, Code for America - Amy Bruckman
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology - Martin Percy
Interactive Director, Unit9 - Tamara Birdsall
Creative Director, Healthline Media - Amy Ongiri
Jill Beck Director of Film Studies, Lawrence University in Appleton - James Sims
Director of Communications, Center Theatre Group - Fabienne Roc
Sr Writer/Producer, BET - Gunita Kulikovska
Founder and CEO, Vividly - Nina Sers
Managing Director, Imprint Projects - Jessica Somerhausen
Impact Consultant - Jake Blok
Founder, I Have a Wish - Marina Hassapopoulou
Professor, NYU - Maya Kopytman
C&G Partners LLC - Rosa Jiménez Cano
Tech Editor at Large, Invertia - Stig Harder
Founder & CEO, Academy of Fashion Arts and Sciences - Leah Frazier
President, Think Three Media - Reshma Saujiani
Founder, Girls Who Code - Kareem Rahma
Co-Founder, Hyphen Media - Jamie Coomber
Global Brand & Creative Director, MOO - Peter Bray
CEO, Bray & Co - Kat Randel
Managing Director, Council for Inclusive Capitalism - Philippe Santini
Founder, 9/16 - Jean-Robert Saintil
Director, Saintil Communications - Sandra Schilling
Senior Creative Director, Sandra Schilling - Richard Sancho
Design Director, Medium - Maurice Cherry
Principal, Creative Director, Lunch - Areg Safaryan
ICEBERG INTERACTIVE LLC - Guyang Chen-Ware
Creative Director, Futerra - Ruchika Tulshyan
Founder & CEO, Candour - Matei Curtasu - Global Creative Director, Stefanini Infinit
Matei Curtasu - Global Creative Director, Stefanini Infinit - Luis Camano
Chief Creative Officer, Key Activations - Kek Toledo
Creative Director / Screenwriter - Cherelle de Graaf
Owner, Count Concepts - Steve Smorgon
Director, Escor - Matt Clack
Creative Lead, Brand Studio, Google - Kimberly Conger
Design Director, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty - Levan Lepsveridze
Chief Creative Officer, Leavingstone - Augusto Correia
Associate Creative Director, TBWA\Raad - Mark Carolan
Creative Director, Aspen Skiing Company - Burak Canpolat
Art Director, Dec-85 - Guillaume Buat-Ménard - Flipside
Guillaume Buat-Ménard - Flipside - Daniela Vojta
Executive Creative Director, BBDO NY - Reuben Brenner-Adams
Interactive Developer, Smithsonian Science Education Center - Shanita Brackett
Director of Visitor and Guest Services, Nat’l Museum of Af American History and Culture - Jeff Baron
Loveboat - Arin Bhowmick
Vice President and Chief Design Officer, IBM - Lisa Berenson
Copywriter & Content Designer, Facebook - Alexis Madison
Associate Director, Digital Strategy, Deutsch New York - Lisa Sugar
Founder and President, PopSugar - Rich Tu
VP of Digital Design MTV at ViacomCBS, MTV / ViacomCBS - Peter Yagecic
Director of Technical Projects, Situation - Folker Wrage
President, Leavingstone International - James Wong
Head of Strategy, PHD Hong Kong - Arno Wolterman
Design Director / Partner, IN10 - Zhou Wen Jun
Founder, Design Director, Architect - Andreas Wegner
Co-Founder, Futur2 Studio - Michelle Gao
Producer, Director of Photography, Arrow Factory Doc - Matt Townsend
Strategy Director, AKQA - Anatoly Topol
CEO, blackbelt_media - Bryce Thomason
President, Digital VIbes - Vineet Vijayraj Thapar
Executive Creative Director, Yugantar.Co - Victoria Stoyanova
London host, CreativeMornings - Kim Baschet
Digital Designer, Independent - Maria Asare-Boadi
Senior Interactive Designer, Level Studios - Dennis de Grauw
Product Manager, NLZIET - Lia Aran
Experience and Creative Director, Service Design, Boston Scientific - Ricardo Alvarado
Associative Creative Director, F.Biz - Cleo Bess
Art Director, Dagger - Nic Allum
Senior Vice President, Culture & Influence, The Projects - Rocio Frausto
On Her Majestys Request - Erik Herrström
Design Director, Studio Erik Herrström - Amy Ganderson
Director of Digital Strategy, Colorectal Cancer Alliance - Roger Gehrmann
Executive Creative Director, Pandora / SiriusXM / Stitcher - Corey Gutch
Co-founder/Principal, Civilization - Pancho González
Chief Creative Officer, Inbrax - Adam Griffith
Managing Director, Luminary - Anna Gerber
Creative Partner/ Co-Founder, Visual Editions/ Editions At Play - Bill Galloway
Creative Director, other media - Gwynne Gauntlett
Senior Digital Marketing and Fundraising Advisor, United Nations Development Programme - Lilian Galarraga
SVP, Integrated Group Strategist, CDM NY - Simon Frantz
Managing Editor, BBC Global News Limited - Mori Harano
Creative Director / Founder, Mori Inc. - Maree Frakes
Senior Program Manager, Roku - Antonio Fragoso
Global Creative Lead, TikTok - Lisa Schneider
Chief Growth Officer, Framework Homeownership - Jackson Tan
Black Design Pte. - Ted Morgan
Director, Delivery & Process, POWERSHiFTER - Bruno DI Celio
Creative Art Director, Artplan - Selena Mooney
Founder, SG Services Inc. - Mark Fretten
Creative Director, Gumf Ltd. - Alexandre Meyer
Freelance Cultural Strategist, Alleeez - Doreen Fleming
Co-Founder, Director of Digital Strategy Sweet FireBrand & Founder, One Web Source - Zhaoyin Feng
Correspondent, BBC - Marcus Foley
Co-Founder, Tommy - Fabio Seidl
Director, Global Creative Development, Facebook - Karl Wolfgang Epple
Executive Creative Director, thjnk - Amy Enchelmeyer
Media and Web Content Supervisor, Smithsonian - Brad Dunn
The Field Museum - William Dollace
Creative Director, Caroselling - Jason Dennie
Head of Programmatic Operations, Hearst - Marty Martinez
Global Executive Creative Director, Tank - Oscar de la Hera Gomez
Founder, delasign - Lauren Maffeo
Associate Principal Analyst, GetApp - Priscila de Sousa
Group Copy Supervisor, McCann Health NY - Kumuda Rao
Chief Marketing Officer, Halfful - Shefik Macauley
Executive Producer and Host, Shefik presents Invocation - Miles Ludwig
VP Digital Media, Sesame Workshop - Michael Lorenz
Head of Creative Content, DMB Vienna GmbH - Peter Joziasse
Shareholder, iYYU - Leo Leone
Executive Creative Director - Sebastian Lehns
Global Program Manager Digital, United Digital Group - Lino Ribolla
Founder, Creative Director, The Digital Embassy - Herb Riede
COO at Rabid Nerd, Executive Producer, Humanity Giveaway - José Antonio Rodríguez
Mas Solís Expansive Artist / Audiovisual Producer, THE EMPIRE OF IMAGINATION STUDIOS - Xavier Rivera
Senior Art Director, Duncan Channon - Nick Reid - Sr. Manager, Audience Development, ViacomCBS/Nickelodeon
Nick Reid - Sr. Manager, Audience Development, ViacomCBS/Nickelodeon - Kadisha Phillips
Growth Strategist, Carbon Clutch Inc. - Nathan Pitzel
Director of Content & Production, BLVR - Thomas Scovell
Director of Strategy, Byte - Diane Schulz
Business Director – Global Key Accounts, SERVICEPLAN GROUP - Andy Naylor
Merck Pte Ltd - Bekah Nutt
Director of Digital, Level Forward - Jenny Nicholson
Group Creative Director, McKinney - Thomas Knüwer
Executive Creative Director, Kolle Rebbe - Mike Lear
Executive Creative Director, The Americas, BCG BrightHouse - Katherine Miller
Principal & Founder, Table 81 - Kirill Karnovich-Valua
Creative Director, RT Creative Lab - Hilary Joyner
COO, hi5.agency