The Harvard Environmental Law Program presents the Horizon Award each year to an individual who has made extraordinary contributions to environmental law and policy. The award is a means of recognizing great people who have accomplished great things in the field of environment and natural resources law, and to provide a forum in which to discuss those achievements.
Past Winners of the Horizon Award
2012 – Justice John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court
2013 – Bruce Babbit, Former Arizona Governor and Secretary of the Interior
2014 – Lisa Jackson, Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson
2015 – Frances Beinecke, Former NRDC President
2016 – Gina McCarthy, Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator
2019 – Maura Healey, Massachusetts Attorney General
2021 – Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali, Founding Member of EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and National Wildlife Federation Vice President of Environmental Justice, Climate, and Community Revitalization
2022 – Catherine Coleman Flowers, Environmental Justice Activist, Macarthur Fellow, and White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council Vice Chair