The Rachel Carson Awards Council is a group of thirty women who help select the Rachel Carson awardees. The Council also promotes education and information on the environment. Council members meet and share information on mainstream and emerging environmental challenges annually. In addition to reviewing the mission and achievements of Rachel Carson Award nominees from across the country, the Council provides leadership for the Women in Conservation website, and helps direct the Rachel Carson Scholarship for girls and young women. Audubon has multiple outstanding women scientists, researchers, environmental educators, and policy advocates who brief the Council at a private meeting annually.

The Rachel Carson Awards Council is made up of a cross-section of women committed to the environment - some are filmmakers and writers, local food advocates and organic farmers, green CEOs and lawyers, parks commissioners, journalists, philanthropists and foundation program officers. Over 70 percent of past honorees serve on the Council, representing their respective worlds of focus and achievement. The Council has served as a liaison between Audubon and the worlds each member comes from, sharing resources on information about great nominees, wonderful knowledge about different aspects of the environmental movement with which they are most familiar.

Oceana’s goal is to return our oceans to the rich, healthy and abundant state our grandparents enjoyed in their youth.  With this in mind, teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocate work diligently and compassionately to enact policy changes that will reduce pollution and prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life.  There are already 300,000 members involved worldwide as well as e-activists in over 150 countries. Susan is the chairwoman of Oceana's Ocean Council.

Forty-five minutes outside of New York City, nestled in the low hills of Tarrytown, Stone Barns provides a unique and enchanting approach to sustainable agriculture.  This non-profit's goal is to help folks make the connection between what we buy and the effects each choice has on our health, our community and our land.  In light of this, the farm is equal parts kitchen, classroom, exhibit, laboratory and campus.  The Stone Barns farmers carefully select the most appropriate breeds, seeds and ecological dynamics necessary to create a diverse, resilient and reliable food system, all with the goal of teaching others to do the same!  

Since 1980, Alaska Conservation Foundation (ACF) has dedicated itself to protecting Alaska’s wild ecosystems, the last of their kind in our nation.  With a focus on effective grassroots conservation organizations, ACF has awarded over $27 million worth of grants to more than 200 organizations, which will ensure that Alaska’s precious natural resources are protected for future generations.

The Global Leadership Council is a group of engaged, informed and influential individuals who work alongside NRDC’s staff of scientists, lawyers and other experts on the regional, national and international levels to advance long-term solutions to the environmental challenges facing our planet.  They act as active ambassadors for NRDC’s mission to safeguard the earth: its people, plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.  In particular, they focus on environmental policies which have the greatest potential to ensure a sustainable future:  curbing global warming, moving America beyond oil, reviving our oceans, saving endangered wildlife and wild places, phasing out toxic chemicals and accelerating the greening of China.

Chicken & Egg Pictures actively nurtures women filmmakers by providing financial, creative and producing support during the life of a film.  Whether new to the scene or an old hat, with a fiction or non-fiction focus, Chicken & Egg is drawn to storytellers who use their skills to address social justice and human rights on a local, nation or global scale.  They are committed to embracing a wide diversity of women’s voices, especially those who are otherwise under-represented.