Skip to content
What We Do

Climate Corps Fellowship Awards

Each year Climate Corps recognizes the outstanding achievements of our alumni and fellows. The annual Climate Corps Fellowship Awards recognize fellows who complete outstanding work in these areas: 

  • The Business Case Award for the fellow who presents the strongest case for a project recommendation, backed by sound quantitative analysis and with a high likelihood of implementation. 
  • The Innovation Award for the fellow who recommends the most creative approach to reducing a host organization’s emissions or an innovative solution for overcoming barriers. 
  • The Collaboration Award for the fellow who most effectively facilitates work across or within organizations or the Climate Corps network to collectively bolster climate and energy initiatives. 
  • The Low Carbon Award for the China Program fellow who develops the most compelling case for achieving significant carbon emissions reductions. 
  • The Adam Rozenberg Community Builder Award recognizes the fellow who demonstrates outstanding leadership in their cohort’s connectivity and sense of community. This award honors the memory of 2023 fellow, Adam Rozenberg. 

See below for current and past fellowship award winners.

Alumni Awards
Learn about our distinguished alumni award winners.

Learn more

2026 Business Case Award Winner

Kolawole Arowoogun Headshot

Kolawole Arowoogun

US Program
JLL
View Project | LinkedIn

Read more

Kolawole Arowoogun, a 2026 PhD graduate from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, won the Business Case Award.

Kolawole developed a financial model that helps JLL quantify how climate transition risks could affect the value and financial performance of commercial real estate assets and portfolios.

Drawing on JLL financial data and research on carbon pricing, emerging regulation, utility costs, emissions intensity, market demand, and potential green premiums and brown discounts, Kolawole built a scenario-based tool that translates complex climate risks into decision-useful financial information.
He applied the model to a sample portfolio and developed client narratives and phased recommendations that allow JLL to deploy the tool immediately while expanding its capabilities as market data and understanding of transition risks evolve.

Kolawole’s work gives JLL a practical way to respond to growing investor demand for financially grounded climate-risk analysis, strengthening its sustainability advisory services while creating a scalable framework for evaluating transition risk across real estate portfolios.

2026 Innovation Award Winner

Lalie Marie Headshot

Lalie Marie

US Program
The Opus Group
View Project | LinkedIn

Read more

Lalie Marie, a 2026 MEM graduate from Duke University’s Nicolas School of the Environment, won the Innovation Award.

Lalie developed a new approach for embedding sustainability across hundreds of events where decisions are distributed among different agencies, teams, clients, venues, and vendors.

After conducting 26 stakeholder interviews across three agencies and nine functional areas, she translated concepts including life-cycle thinking, circular economy, the waste hierarchy, and environmental justice into 70 practical “decision moments” across 11 stages of the event lifecycle.

Rather than creating another high-level sustainability policy or best-practices guide, Lalie designed the Sustainable Event Field Guide around the moments when event teams can actually influence an outcome, making sustainability easier to incorporate into everyday planning and production.

Her work shifts the challenge from scaling sustainability staff to scaling sustainability knowledge, providing Opus with a practical framework that can continue evolving alongside its sustainability goals, data capabilities, and event-delivery practices.

2026 Collaboration Award Winner

Rishabh Ravichandran Headshot

Rishabh Ravichandran

US Program
CoreWeave

LinkedIn

Read more

Rishabh Ravichandran, a 2028 MEM/MBA candidate from Yale University’s School of Environment and School of Management, won the Collaboration Award.

Rishabh brought together internal teams, data-center providers, NGOs, and other experts to address emerging challenges around water use and climate resilience across CoreWeave’s rapidly growing data-center portfolio.

Working closely with CoreWeave’s Design and Operations teams and its data-center providers, he developed a cooling-systems repository and the company’s first consolidated view of water withdrawal, discharge, consumption, and Water Usage Effectiveness.

Rishabh also engaged external organizations on water-replenishment strategies and translated complex technical findings into practical insights that could support leadership discussions, site planning, reporting, and future water-reduction efforts.

His work created both new technical infrastructure and stronger relationships across the organizations responsible for managing CoreWeave’s water impacts, establishing a foundation for continued collaboration as the company’s water and climate-resilience strategy evolves.

2026 Adam Rozenberg Community Builder Award Winner

Stuti Garg Headshot

Stuti Garg

US Program 
NYU Langone

LinkedIn

Read more

Stuti Garg, a 2027 MS Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, won the Adam Rozenberg Community Builder Award.

Throughout the summer, Stuti took the initiative to create meaningful connections among Climate Corps fellows and alumni, helping organize multiple informal gatherings for the New York City community.

She made those opportunities more accessible by personally following up with fellows and, for those she could not meet in person, setting up virtual one-on-one conversations to learn about their projects and fellowship experiences. Several of those conversations developed into ongoing check-ins throughout the summer.

Rather than relying only on formal Climate Corps programming, Stuti created additional spaces for fellows to build relationships, exchange experiences, and feel connected to the broader Climate Corps professional community.
Continuing her commitment to community building, Stuti helped establish the IBPSA-USA Student Chapter at Carnegie Mellon University in Fall 2026, where she currently serves as president and works to create opportunities for interdisciplinary learning, connection, and engagement around building performance and sustainability.

Her efforts demonstrate how small, intentional acts of community building can strengthen a cohort during the fellowship and lay the groundwork for relationships that continue long after the summer ends.

Past Award Winners

The Business Case Award

The Innovation Award

The Collaboration Award

The Low Carbon Award
Adam Rozenberg Community Builder Award