GWS Alumni Nominated for Pritzker Genius Award

Elizabeth Corr is one of the first students to graduate with a degree from Illinois in Gender and Women's Studies in 2004.  As the Director of Art Partnerships at the National Resources Defense Council in Chicago, she works with artists, architects, and designers to heighten public awareness of and interest in the environmental issues that face today’s communities. She launched NRDC’s Artist-in-Residence program and is expanding support for NRDC’s art and climate–related projects, from such organizations as the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Public Concern Foundation, and Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.  Now she is a 2018 candidate for the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award.