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 edition, 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

Emma Witkowski
WIldBrain

Ashish Gupta
PopId

Michelle Makasini
Makasini Group

Noelle Jones Aladesuyi
We Thrive Media

Danielle Ito
Lovable

Renee Edwards
HPE

Julie Walsh Smith
Complexly

Rebekah Metts-Childers
PepsiCo

Jeremy Holland
Golden Kobe Family

Amanda Ponzar
Community Catalyst

Adam Rivietz
#paid

Mike Nuzzo
Accenture Song

Naz Nazli
Creative X, Meta

Elizabeth Pigg
That's it.

Justin Baum
Lenovo

Ran Wei
Microsoft for Startups Microsoft

Adele Mulford
The Cultivate Company

Melissa Anderson
Search.com, a division of Public Good

Jazmine Chase
Amazon MGM Studios

Katie Bisbee
DonorsChoose

Justin Ayars
EqualityMD

Scott Terry
BarkleyOKRP

Sunny Vachher
SUNNY

Rodrigo Martinez
Cappuccino

Carmen Boon
Food Bank for New York City

Arielle Berlinsky
Movement Strategy

Maz Farrelly
MazSpeaksGlobal.com

Satenik Ghazaryan
ADA

Sean DallasKidd
Demonstrate x DDW

Paolo Deleon
Dentsu Creative Philippines

Eric Wallace
Glo Navy

Svetlana Stotskaya
Independent Consultant

Hung Lang
Initiative

Marcela Angeles
Mccann

Nick Bilodeau
Quantum

Deidre Osei
Talawah Impact

Abhinit Agarwal
TBWA Singapore

Troy Scarlott
Independent

Lori Martin
.

Jiri Bures
Imagination

Kat Richards
Digitas North America

Kiran C K
Exemplifi

Erica Kraus
I Am Rollerskating LLC

Kenya Eldridge
Haus Labs

Mary Corigliano
Brand Marketing Executive

Emeka Obia
Publicis West Africa

Kirsten Ludwig
IN GOOD CO

Jack Gillard-Rayer
Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP)

Susan Chang
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Michael Colella
Infillion

Priyanka Pruthi
United Nations

Josh Paialii

Kyle Pavia
Los Angeles LGBT Center

Sascha Piltz
MRM New York

Lucy Marcus
Marcus Venture Consulting/Navigating the Vortex

Kirill Lazariev
Lazarev.agency

Jason Dailey
Meta

Rob Engelsman
Quick Study

Crissy Bogusz
Cardwell Beach

Allison Hobbs
Omnicom, Creo

Kymberlie Adams
Soroptimist International

Bernice Chao
Petlibro

Jessie Mash
SonderCo

Magnus Gylje
Swedish Radio (SR)

Caitlin Horrigan
Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Katie Soo
Asia Society Southern California

Zeyi Yang
WIRED

Maximilian Eugster
Agentur am Flughafen AG

Shefik Macauley
Shefik Presents Invocation

Jerry Hizon
Dentsu Creative Philippines & Dentsu Creative Manila

Charles Ifegwu
CONVERGENCE

Azizbek Sayidov
AVT

Ahmed Alsagheer
Asharq Business with Bloomberg

Karen Freberg
University of Louisville

Maria Rastatourova
https://masharastatourova.com

Cassidy Lashaway
The Refinery

Joy Moh
The Asian American Foundation (TAAF)

Carrie Shade
Against Suicide Movement

Karen Levy
The Culinary Institute of America

Lola Bakare
[email protected]

Rahul Jain
Netflix

Duc Nguyen
Dentsu

Rosemary Fitzgerald
Spiderweb Studio

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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