WHO WILL BE JUDGING MY WORK?

Each season, the Shorty Impact Awards carefully curates a panel of Real Time Academy members to judge the competition. This year, as we celebrate our 11th anniversary, we’re proud to present a jury whose expertise expands across fields such as marketing, design, communications, strategy and more:

Leanna Pham
BEECON

Sam(antha) Dietz
The #Impactivists

D’Anthony Jackson
Novo Nordisk

Corey Martin
Allison Worldwide

Bukola Ogunyemi
World Bank Group

Maryna Semioshyna
HOURS

Mayola Charles
Meta

Guto Andrade
Verizon

Courtney Collard
1UP Sports Marketing

Sophie Jamison
Anomaly

Ashley Sonlin
Influent Social

Camilla Yates
Elvis

Michael Ruby
Park & Battery

Hope Freedman
Brand Growth & Social Impact lead

Ben Tyson
Born Social

Smitha Ram Nagrath
FleishmanHillard

Alfonso Cuesta
Salta With Us

Ryan Letada
AI Institute for Human Migration + Arrival

Karen DAgostino
Motivo Advisory LLC

Carmen Vicente
Slate

Boon Lai
Dropbox

Jess Mireau
Kettle

Michael Heaven
Butterfly Effect

Maia Ervin
United Talent Agency

Julien Le Bas
Jack Morton Worldwide

Jenny Fernandez
Columbia University

MacKenzie Green
Audible

Jacky So
City of Albuquerque

Anjali Ramasunder
Social Impact Fund

Sergio Spaccavento
Micidial

Vikki Chowney
Burson

Eri Mizobe
MSL Group

Jan Wilker
karlssonwilker

Jake Hertz
NanoHertz Solutions Inc.

Lia Matthow
Open to Debate

Virginia Chavez
PetSmart Charities

Michelle Esgar
Panasonic

Renee Roth
Dropbox

Sabrina Barekzai
Slack from Salesforce

kapil arora
AllianceBernstein

Dana Hork
Beers With Friends

France Tantiado
Creator Gold

Nao Madison
Tomorrow

Michelle Beaver
YouTube

Erin Augustine
Oatly

Wes Elder
Creatorspace

George Ames
Forster Communications

Elizabeth Pigg
That's it.

Carmen Boon
Food Bank for New York City

Arielle Berlinsky
Movement Strategy

Kat Richards
Digitas North America

Kirsten Ludwig
IN GOOD CO

Jack Gillard-Rayer
Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP)

Susan Chang
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

JUDGING CRITERIA

The Shorty Impact Awards recognize excellence in digital and social media.

All entries will be scored by judges on these major criteria:

Creativity & Innovation

Demonstrate a well-executed strategy along with originality and innovation, resulting in a memorable and “out of the box” outcome.

Strategy & Execution

Clearly defined and effective strategic plan that is key to a brand, agency or organization meeting their objectives. The plan should be aligned with the objectives.

Impact

Demonstrate the performance, outcome and positive impact that meet or exceed the objectives of the work submitted. Results can be quantitative and/or qualitative.

THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media and digital. View this season's finalists!

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