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:

Rebekah Metts-Childers
PepsiCo

Jeremy Holland
Golden Kobe Family

Shani Syphrett
Pinterest

Cinira Baldi
Good360

Clara Luo
Blackrock

Suejin Kim
MARS

Rob McQueen
Cisco Systems

Lisa Bull
Yobo Spirit House

Leslie Abbey
Hot Bread Kitchen

RJ Larese
Sixteenth

D’Anthony Jackson
Novo Nordisk

Guto Andrade
Verizon

Boon Lai
Dropbox

Elizabeth Pigg
That's it.

Michelle Esgar
Panasonic

Justin Baum
Lenovo

Ran Wei
Microsoft for Startups Microsoft

Melissa Anderson
Search.com, a division of Public Good

Naz Nazli
Creative X, Meta

Amanda Ponzar
Community Catalyst

Jazmine Chase
Amazon MGM Studios

Adam Rivietz
#paid

Dom Buggs
DramaWave

Stephanie Wendelin
Google

Alex Lewis
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.

Daniel Head
YETI

Cheyenne Hidalgo
McKinney

Ben Jory
Jory&Co

Ed Beadle
AHM (Honda)

Meredith Whitefield
Smile Train

Jason Maier
Echoing Green

Bolong Li
Amazon, Audible

Nandini Nandakumar
Diageo

Jordan Randall
TikTok

Corey Martin
Allison Worldwide

Carmen Boon
Food Bank for New York City

Arielle Berlinsky
Movement Strategy

Emma Witkowski
WIldBrain

Maz Farrelly
MazSpeaksGlobal.com

Satenik Ghazaryan
ADA

Sean DallasKidd
Demonstrate x DDW

Paolo Deleon
Dentsu Creative Philippines

Justin Ayars
EqualityMD

Scott Terry
BarkleyOKRP

Eric Wallace
Glo Navy

Svetlana Stotskaya
Independent Consultant

Hung Lang
Initiative

Marcela Angeles
Mccann

Nick Bilodeau
Quantum

Deidre Osei
Talawah Impact

Sunny Vachher
SUNNY

Abhinit Agarwal
TBWA Singapore

Adele Mulford
The Cultivate Company

Danielle Ito
Lovable

Rodrigo Martinez
Cappuccino

Troy Scarlott
Independent

Lori Martin
.

Jiri Bures
Imagination

Katie Bisbee
DonorsChoose

ranjana choudhry
NYU SPS

Felipe Mendez
United Talent Agency

Madeleine Nischan
COLOR Creative

Kimberly Coleman
Pinterest

Courtney-Grace Richardson
Droga5

Maya Shaff
Oura

Steve Rock
Good Kids Creative

Sharon Romang
Front Row

Anthony Cain
Liquid Media

Maggie Winters
This January

Alexandre Faure
FaureMidable

Stephanie Hind
PROUDLY SERVING

Aidaly Sosa Walker
Tony's Chocolonely

Zaina Madain
OKPerfect

Cici Ghattas

Sherri Solinger
The Atlas Creative CollectiVe, LLC

Benjamin Arnold
OK COOL

Courtney Betley
Reveille Inc

Sara Rezaee
Edelman

Aihui Dong
Producer and Creative Advisor

Alix McAlpine
GIPHY

Aniket Mishra
Born21 Media

Augustina(Ao) Liu
Toast, Inc.

Carla Marshall
Sorbet Digital

Christian Stewart
Logitech

Christine Goos
Croud

Craig Markou
Candybox

Daniel Li
DLG

Florence Achado
Vee69

Galina Shubik
Affect Group

Jan Harling
Virtus Asia Consulting

Jarrod Corbett
Look Squirrel

JD Rico
Qualititave Intelligence

Jennifer Blanco
Indeed

John Attanasio
Toonstar

Josh Zimmerman
Creator Coach

Joy Ekuta
Stealth

Karina Kogan
Napster

Kindra Meyer
VERB

Mauricio Meza
The Big Ideas Co.

Natasha Mulla
natashamulla.com

Rudi Anggono
N/A

Shrenik Gandhi
White Rivers Media

Teodora (Teddy) Tepavicharova
The Telegraph

Tosin Balogun
WPP Media (Sub-Saharan Africa)

Zanade Mann
Zanade Enterprises LLC

Ashley Frohnert
PETA

Ashley Yang
Apple 

Stephanie Lager
Mango Creative Co.

Jesse Spencer
The Coca-Cola Company

Leanna Pham
BEECON

Sam(antha) Dietz
The #Impactivists

Bukola Ogunyemi
World Bank Group

Kat Richards
Digitas North America

Kiran C K
Exemplifi

Erica Kraus
I Am Rollerskating LLC

Kenya Eldridge
Haus Labs

Mary Corigliano
Brand Marketing Executive

Greg Swan
FINN Partners

Fahad Khawaja
Hue

Kate Wolff
Lupine Creative

Maryna Semioshyna
HOURS

Mayola Charles
Meta

Damian Galvin
Bastion Aotearoa

Xiaobi Iris Pan
HMW Design Studio

Courtney Collard
1UP Sports Marketing

Emeka Obia
Publicis West Africa

Sophie Jamison
Anomaly

Jared Carneson
Adobe

Ashley Sonlin
Influent Social

Kirsten Ludwig
IN GOOD CO

Camilla Yates
Elvis

Poppy Shen
Nasdaq

Michael Ruby
Park & Battery

Hope Freedman
Brand Growth & Social Impact lead

Jack Gillard-Rayer
Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP)

Rob Alley
Amazon, Brand Innovation Lab

Ben Tyson
Born Social

Erica Henderson
INNOCEAN USA

Fattah Kacihi
Boomerang Communication

Steven Wakabayashi
Stranger Creative

Smitha Ram Nagrath
FleishmanHillard

Robyn Nissim
Social Proof Agency

Alfonso Cuesta
Salta With Us

Ryan Letada
AI Institute for Human Migration + Arrival

Karen DAgostino
Motivo Advisory LLC

Carmen Vicente
Slate

Susan Chang
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Jess Mireau
Kettle

Michael Heaven
Butterfly Effect

Jacques Keyser
VidCon

Maia Ervin
United Talent Agency

Julien Le Bas
Jack Morton Worldwide

Jenny Fernandez
Columbia University

Michael Colella
Infillion

MacKenzie Green
Audible

Jacky So
City of Albuquerque

Joe Cahill
Unqork

Jordan Moran
ex: Universal Music Group, Primary Wave Entertainment

Anjali Ramasunder
Social Impact Fund

Jacob Wallach
Social4TheWin

Sergio Spaccavento
Micidial

Vikki Chowney
Burson

Eri Mizobe
MSL Group

Priyanka Pruthi
United Nations

Jan Wilker
karlssonwilker

Jake Hertz
NanoHertz Solutions Inc.

Pancho González
Inbrax

Lia Matthow
Open to Debate

Josh Paialii

Amanda N. Hammar
Sisense

Virginia Chavez
PetSmart Charities

Renee Roth
Dropbox

Sabrina Barekzai
Slack from Salesforce

kapil arora
AllianceBernstein

Michael Campos
Campos Consulting

Dana Hork
Beers With Friends

Kyle Pavia
Los Angeles LGBT Center

France Tantiado
Creator Gold

Nao Madison
Tomorrow

Michelle Beaver
YouTube

Anuj Chhabra
Pernod Ricard USA

Erin Augustine
Oatly

Aman Singh
Kenvue

Wes Elder
Creatorspace

Dylan Huey
REACH

George Ames
Forster Communications

Simge Weinling-Dogrular
Tony’s Chocolonely

Sascha Piltz
MRM New York

Ashish Gupta
PopId

Michelle Makasini
Makasini Group

Noelle Jones Aladesuyi
We Thrive Media

Lucy Marcus
Marcus Venture Consulting/Navigating the Vortex

Renee Edwards
HPE

Julie Walsh Smith
Complexly

Kirill Lazariev
Lazarev.agency

Jason Dailey
Meta

Mike Nuzzo
Accenture Song

Kimber Mowery
VidSummit

Kate Kelley
Shine Global

Rob Engelsman
Quick Study

Karen Piper
Code and Theory

Crissy Bogusz
Cardwell Beach

Bao Nguyen
Moonbug

Cary Smith
Collective Arts

Nicole Godreau
SuperAwesome

Jason Y. Lee
Jubilee Media

Leroy ter Braak
Leroy ter Braak LLC

Allison Hobbs
Omnicom, Creo

Lorie Acio
Acio Communications

adam moorman
alldaybreakfast.tv

Goldie Chan
Warm Robots

Michael Chavez Booth
POV Agency

Jordan Hunter-Powell
dentsu

Nicole Weiss-Calamar
BLT Communications

Miriam Malta
BBDO LA

Amy Carvajal
Fulltank Studio

Kymberlie Adams
The Humane League

Bernice Chao
Petlibro

Nic Allum
Cultureland

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

Keith Pape
YellowPike Media

Jerry Hizon
Dentsu Creative Philippines & Dentsu Creative Manila

Charles Ifegwu
CONVERGENCE

Jiayuan Wang
Vision Studio

Sarah McLeod
Media Experts

Azizbek Sayidov
AVT

Ahmed Alsagheer
Asharq Business with Bloomberg

Karen Freberg
University of Louisville

Jhon Jaimes
Web3 Copywriter

Maria Rastatourova
https://masharastatourova.com

Cassidy Lashaway
The Refinery

Halley Knigge
BECU

Oluwafemi Olugbade
The Soundbaking Company

Joy Moh
The Asian American Foundation (TAAF)

Carrie Shade
Against Suicide Movement

Karen Levy
The Culinary Institute of America

Temeka Easter Rice
Vanguard

Lola Bakare
[email protected]

Rahul Jain
Netflix

Matt Wolff
Ticket Time Machine™

Sara Porritt
Omnicom Media

Steve Kerry
Monks

Rebecca Nunez
The MRN Agency

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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