Evaluation
Receive feedback from peer and expert reviewers.
Peer-to-Peer Review
During peer-to-peer review, each applicant will score and comment on five other applications using the four criteria included in the scoring rubric: transformative, equitable, innovative, and feasible. This is the same scoring rubric that the evaluation panel will use.
Scores will be calculated using an algorithm that ensures a level playing field for all applicants. In addition to scoring each application on the four criteria in the scoring rubric, peer-to-peer reviewers will also provide a final numerical score, ranging between 0-100, representing an overall impression of the entire application. We ask that each peer-to-peer reviewer carefully read the applications given to them and provide meaningful feedback.
The peer-to-peer review will result in a rank order of all valid submissions. Based on the rank order of scores, top-scoring applications will move forward to the evaluation panel review.
Evaluation Panel
The evaluation panel members have been carefully chosen for their knowledge and experience. Each member scores and comments on the applications assigned to them. Each valid application will receive five sets of reviews that have been statistically normalized. Informed by the resulting rank order of applications, up to ten finalists will be selected.
Stacey Abrams
Author
Jenny Abramson
Founder & Managing Partner, Rethink Impact
Erika Alexander
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Color Farm Media
Daisy Auger-Dominguez
Founder & CEO, Auger-Dominguez Ventures
M. V. Lee Badgett
Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Suzanne Barbour
Dean of The Graduate School & Professor of biochemistry & biophysics, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Jessica Barron
Consultant, Frontline Solutions
Melanie Bell-Mayeda
Partner & Managing Director, IDEO
Umbreen Bhatti
Constance Hess Williams ‘66 Director, Athena Center for Leadership, Barnard College
Chad Boettcher
Founder & Head, Impact Guild
Carla Brodley
Dean, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Executive Director, Center for Inclusive Computing, Northeastern University
Suzette Brooks Masters
Senior Strategist at the Center for Inclusion & Belonging, American Immigration Center
Jay Brown
Vice Chairman & Co-Founder, Roc Nation
Kelly Brown
CEO, Viewpoint Counsulting
Anne Marie Burgoyne
Managing Director, Social Innovation, Emerson Collective
Hannah Calhoon
Founder & Managing Director, Blue Ridge Labs
Kimberly Cassidy
President, Bryn Mawr College
Anne Chao
Adjunct Lecturer in the Humanities, Rice University
Farai Chideya
Program Officer, Ford Foundation
Crystal Churchwell Evans
Director of Development, Frist Art Museum
Allison Clark
Associate Director, Impact Investments, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Beth Comstock
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Co-Founder & Executive Director, African American Policy Forum
Vanessa Daniel
Founder & Executive Director, Groundswell Fund
Felicia Davis
President & CEO, Chicago Foundation for Women
Alecia DeCoudreaux
President Emerita, Mills College
Sahana Dharmapuri
Director, Our Secure Future, One Earth Future Foundation
Susan Ditkoff
Senior Advisor, The Bridgespan Group
Paul Di Donato
President & CEO, The Proteus Fund
Thasunda Duckett
CEO, Chase Consumer Banking
Ivelisse Estrada
Amy Fahey
Chair of the Board of Directors, First Women's Bank
Julie Fernandes
Associate Director for Institutional Accountability & Individual Liberty, Rockefeller Family Fund
Jeff Forbes
Program Director for the Education & Workforce, National Science Foundation's Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Henrietta Fore
Executive Director, UNICEF
Mary Frank Fox
ADVANCE Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Josh Frazier-Sparks
Senior Manager, Corporate Philanthropy, Walmart.org
Shauntel Garvey
Co-Founder & General Partner, Reach Capital
Roxane Gay
Author
Helene Gayle
President & CEO, The Chicago Community Trust
Angela Glover Blackwell
Founder in Residence, PolicyLink
Lisa Gomer
International Development Consultant
Holly Gordon
Chief Impact Officer, Participant
Adam Grant
Organizational Psychologist, Wharton
Katlyn Grasso
Founder & CEO, GenHERation
Geeta Rao Gupta
Senior Fellow, United Nations Foundation
Christina Hachikian
Executive Director, Adjunct Associate Professor, Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Sarah Harden
CEO, Hello Sunshine
Verity Harding
Global Head of Policy & Partnerships, DeepMind
AJ Hassan
Executive Creative Director, R/GA
Seema Hingorani
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Investment Management
Andrea Hoffman
Founder & CEO, Culture Shift Labs
Dane Holmes
Co-founder & CEO, Eskalera
Paula Johnson
President, Wellesley College
Yana Kakar
Global Managing Partner Emertius, Dalberg Advisors
Renee Kaplan
CEO, The Philathropy Workshop
Maheen Kaleem
Deputy Director, Grantmakers for Girls of Color
Noorain Khan
Director, Office of the President, Ford Foundation
Maria Klawe
President, Harvey Mudd College
Freada Klein
Founding Partner, Kapor Capital
Kathryn Kolbert
Co-Founder and Producing Director of the Athena Film Festival
Lauren Kolodny
Founding General Partner, aCrew Capital
Carla Koppell
Distinguished Fellow, Georgetown Institute
Anthony Lake
Former Executive Director, UNICEF
Kevin Lang
Professor of Economics, Boston University
Michael Laracy
Stephanie Lazar
Co-Founder & Directory, Strategy & Operations, Arthur's Point Farm
Aileen Lee
Chief Program Officer, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Olivia Leland
Founder & CEO, Co-Impact
Cindi Leive
Senior Fellow, University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center
Jack Leslie
Chairman, Weber Shandwick
Ruth Levine
CEO, IDinsight
Christina Lewis
Founder, All Star Code
Nejla Liias
President & Founder, Global Health Visions
Latanya Mapp Frett
President & CEO, Global Fund for Women
Kate McAdams
Managing Director, Arabella Advisors
Tovah McCord
Nonprofit Leader & Innovator
Steven McGann
Founder, The Stevenson Group
Dyllan McGee
Founder & Executive Producer, MAKERS
Talia Milgrom-Elcott
Founder & Executive Director, 100Kin10
Karla Monterroso
CEO, Code2040
Jesse Moore
CEO, Common Thread Strategies
Michelle Milford Morse
Vice President for Girls & Women Strategy, UN Foundation
Yolanda Moses
Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
Indra Nooyi
Former President & CEO, Pepsico
Tracy Nowski
Partner, McKinsey & Company
Nneka Ogwumike
President, WNBA Players' Union
Jennifer Olsen
Executive Director, Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving
Sage Quiamno
Co-Founder, Future for Us
Aparna Rae
Founder, Moving Beyond
Joy Lisi Rankin
Research Lead, Gender, Race & Power in AI, AI Now
Patricia Rankin
Professor of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder
Valerie Red-Horse
CFO, East Bay Community Foundation
Pamela Reeves
Senior Fellow, Brown University
Silvia Rivera
Managing Director, Vocalo Radio
Faye Sahai
Managing Director, Vinaj/Telosity
Sam Saperstein
Head of Women on the Move, JPMorgan Chase
Reshma Saujani
Founder & CEO, Girls Who Code
Isabel Sawhill
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
Linda Sax
Professor of Higher Education, School of Education & Information Studies, Founding Director, Momentum: Accelerating Equity in Computing and Technology, UCLA
Ellen Schneider
Founder, Active Voice
Willa Seldon
Partner, The Bridgespan Group
Lisa Sherman
President & CEO, Ad Council
Nicole Small
CEO, LH Capital/Lyda Hill Philanthropies
Deirdre Joy Smith
CEO & Founder, POWER: Opening Doors for Women
Stacy Smith
Founder, USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative
Judith Spitz
Executive Director & Founder, Break Through Tech
Adrienne Starks
Founder & CEO, STREAM Innovations
Donald Steinberg
Executive Director, Mobilizing Men as Partners for Women, Peace, and Security
Catharine Stimpson
University Professor & Dean Emerita, Graduate School of Arts and Science, The Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy, New York University
Myra Strober
Professor Emerita, Stanford University
Tracy Sturdivant
President & CEO, The League
Cyndi Suarez
Senior Editor, NPQ
Kristen Titus
Executive Director, Cognizant U.S. Foundation
Virginia Valian
Professor of Psychology, Hunter College
Natalie Vega O'Neil
President & CEO, Junior Achievement of Washington
Lauren Vernese
Physiatrist & Sports Medicine Physician, Swedish Medical Group
Edgar Villanueva
Senior Vice President, Schott Foundation for Public Education
Kevin Wang
Founder, Mentors in Tech
Gregory Washington
President, George Mason University
Jasmin Weaver
Executive Vice President, Civic Ventures
Angela F. Williams
President & CEO, Easterseals
Whitney Williams
CEO, williamworks
Ciara Wilson
Grammy Award Winning Singer/Songwriter & Entrepreneur, Beauty Marks Entertainment
Danielle Yancey
Director, Native American Center for Health Professions School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alice Xiang
Head of Fairness, Transparency, & Accountability Research, Partnership on AI
Selection Committee
In partnership with Lever for Change, the selection committee will review the top-scoring submissions and select up to 10 finalists based on considerations that may include, but are not limited to, rank from the evaluation panel, organizational capacity, geographic diversity, and feasibility. The selection of the finalists and winners of the awards is at the sole discretion of Pivotal Ventures, MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett, and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies.