JUDGES FINALIZED IN REVERBERATE COMPETITIONS!
Laurie David, TV and film producer and global warming activist, Susan Szenasy, Editor-in-Chief for Metropolis magazine, and Architecture 2030 will be the judges for the two very unusual Reverberate Competitions! We are excited to have these two dedicated leaders join us in this important event.
LAURIE DAVIDLaurie David is devoted to stopping global warming. She founded the Stop Global Warming Virtual March at www.stopglobalwarming.org with Senator John McCain and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that is engaging religious leaders, sports figures, elected officials from all sides of the aisle, business leaders, and every day Americans to urge the United States to address global warming. Ms. David has produced several other projects that bring the issue of global warming into mainstream popular culture, including authoring the bestselling book, Stop Global Warming: The Solution is You! Her book, The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming, co-authored with Cambria Gordon, is aimed at kids of all ages and was the lead fall 2007 title of Scholastic Books. In addition, she executive produced the comedy special, Earth to America! for TBS, which aired November 20, 2005 to millions of viewers and featured Tom Hanks, Will Ferrell, Steve Martin and Jack Black, among many others. She is a producer of the Academy Award winning An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film based on former Vice President Al Gore's thirty years of research on global warming, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and at the Cannes Film Festival, and has been awarded the prestigious Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America and the Critics Choice Award for Best Documentary, a rare Humanitas Prize Special Award. She is also a producer of the HBO documentary, Too Hot Not to Handle, on the effects of global warming in the United States, which aired on HBO April 22, 2006 and is now available on DVD. Ms. David has received numerous awards for her work, including the Audubon Society's Rachel Carson Award, the prestigious Gracie Allen Award for Individual Achievement by the American Women in Radio & Television and the NRDC's 2006 Forces for Nature award for her work on global warming. She has also been honored by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Riverkeeper organization, as well as the Los Angeles' Children's Nature Institute for her commitment to the environmental education of young children. |
SUSAN S. SZENASYSusan S. Szenasy is Editor in Chief of METROPOLIS, the award-winning New York City-based magazine of architecture, culture and design. Since 1986, she has led the magazine through years of landmark design journalism, achieving domestic and international recognition. She is internationally recognized as an authority on sustainability and design. Susan sits on the boards of the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (formerly FIDER), FIT Interior Design, the Center for Architecture Advisory Board, and the Landscape Architecture Foundation. She has been honored with two IIDA Presidential Commendations and is an ASID distinguished speaker on the topic of ethics in design, as well as an honorary member of the American Society for Landscape Architects. Along with METROPOLIS Publisher Horace Havemayer III, Susan was a 2007 recipient of the Civitas August Heckscher Award for Community Service and Excellence. Susan holds an MA in Modern European History from Rutgers University, and honorary doctorates from both Kendall College and the Art Center College of Design. She lives in the East Village in a small loft designed by Harry Allen, where she moved to reduce her ecological footprint. |
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