Jurors

Daniel Cohan

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University

Daniel Cohan, who serves on EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors, received a B.A. in applied mathematics from Harvard University, a Ph.D. in atmospheric science from Georgia Tech, and served as a Fulbright Scholar to Australia. He is a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and has written more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, 75 popular media articles, and the book Confronting Climate Gridlock: How Diplomacy, Technology and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future (Yale University Press, 2022), which won second prize for the Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award.

Sara Cronenwett

Senior Vice President, Corporate Environmental Sustainability, Comcast

At Comcast, Sara Cronenwett leads the environmental strategy at the enterprise level and supports Comcast’s goal to be carbon neutral by 2035. She works closely with sustainability teams within Comcast, NBCUniversal, and Sky as well as other corporate leaders to develop and manage the vision, goals, strategy, and reporting for environmental sustainability across the company. Prior to joining Comcast, Sara spent six years at Gartner, where she served as the Group Vice President for product development and management of the Gartner Business Services products, and seven years at McKinsey & Company, where she served clients across the tech, media, and telecom practices. Sara is a graduate of Stanford University, where she earned both a Bachelor of Science and Ph.D. in Physics. 

Julie DiNatale

Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer, FMC

Julie DiNatale joined FMC in 2023 with more than 25 years of experience in the agricultural and chemical industries. Most recently Julie was the Commercial and Strategic Partnerships Leader at Truterra, a division of Land O’Lakes, supporting large food, fiber and fuel companies achieve their sustainability goals. Before her career in agriculture, Julie spent a decade in sustainability, health and safety for a large chemical manufacturer. Julie grew up in Western New York where she spent summers on her cousin’s dairy farm. She earned a B.S. in Environmental Science from Michigan State University’s College of Agriculture, and an M.S. in Environmental Toxicology from the University of Rochester.

Genevieve Guenther

Founding Director, End Climate Silence
Affiliate Faculty, Tishman Environment and Design Center, The New School

As the founding director of End Climate Silence and affiliate faculty at The New School, Genevieve Guenther advises NGOs, corporations, and policymakers on fossil-fuel disinformation and climate communication. Her research has appeared in both top scholarly journals and media outlets such as Scientific American, The New Republic, and MSNBC, and she has been invited to speak about climate and language to audiences at Duke, Columbia, and Harvard, among other universities. She lives in New York City with her family.

Michael E. Mann

Presidential Distinguished Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Science/Annenberg School for Communication
Director, Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media
University of Pennsylvania

Michael E. Mann's research focuses on climate science and climate change. He was selected by Scientific American as one of the 50 leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002, and was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geophysical Union in 2012. He made Bloomberg News‘ list of 50 most influential people in 2013. He has received the Friend of the Planet Award from the National Center for Science Education, the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication from Climate, the Award for Public Engagement with Science from the AAAS, the Climate Communication Prize from the American Geophysical Union, and the Leo Szilard Award of the American Physical Society. He received the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement 2019, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, Geological Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is co-founder of RealClimate.org, author of more than 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications, numerous op-eds and commentaries, and five books, including Dire Predictions, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, The Madhouse Effect, The Tantrum that Saved the World, and The New Climate War.

Brigitte Weinsteiger, ex officio

H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and Director of the Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania

Brigitte Weinsteiger was appointed the H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and Director of Libraries at the University of Pennsylvania in June 2024. In this position, she leads the expansive Penn Libraries system, which includes 19 physical libraries and holds approximately 9.8 million volumes, along with substantial electronic resources and digital assets. Her leadership focuses on advancing the role of libraries to inspire learning and fuel the creation of knowledge by enabling current and future generations to access and contribute to the scholarly and cultural record. Prior to her current position, Weinsteiger was the Gershwind & Bennett Family Senior Associate Vice Provost for Collections & Scholarly Communication at the Penn Libraries. In that role, she led the organizational strategy for the library's comprehensive collections, preservation, academic engagement, and scholarly communications programs. She is also an active contributor to the library science field through numerous publications and professional engagements, respected across the academic library community for her expertise related to sustainable open access and the future of scholarly communications. She holds a Master of Arts in Liberal Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from Drexel University, and dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Medieval Studies and Integrative Arts from the Pennsylvania State University.