Introducing Our Shorty Impact Award Jury
The Shorty Impact Awards are only a few months away, which means we’re ready to start announcing our jurors. Formerly known as the Shorty Social Good Awards, Impact celebrates non-profits, brands, and agencies who use social media to make our world a better place. To identify these exceptional individuals and organizations, we’ve assembled a jury who will assess and reward those who made an impact. Here’s the criteria by which our jurors will select potential nominees:
1. Impact & Engagement: Entries should demonstrate that their work had a positive impact on the cause they represent and/or successfully engaged their communities in a positive manner.
2. Creativity & Originality: Entries should demonstrate that their work is creative, well-executed and original.
3. Strategy & Innovation: Entries should demonstrate that their work incorporates clear and effective strategies important to the goals of the cause and/or integrates innovative and new ways to deliver their message.
4. People & Purpose: Entries should demonstrate that the people behind the work have displayed exceptionalism in their work and/or ensure their work holds purpose for their organization.
Creative
Executive Creative Director, We Are Social
Edu currently serves as the Executive Creative Director at We Are Social Australia, which was named best digital agency of the year in Cannes. He and his teams have collectively won over 100 awards and have served on the jury of the most prestigious advertising award competitions around the world.
SVP and Art Director, BerlinRosen
Michael DiGiacomo is the Art Director and Senior Vice President at Berlin Rosen. With over 15 years of experience, his command of design, combined with his passion for visual storytelling ensures that every project he touches is both strategically grounded and visually impactful. From digital and print campaigns to branding, Michael oversees Berlin Rosen’s design team and works closely with our strategists and writers to produce creative materials that are on-target for his client's audiences. Before joining Berlin Rosen, Michael worked as a senior designer at Vibe Magazine.
Head of Creative, Instagram
Sue Anderson began her career at TBWA\Hunt Lascaris as a copywriter, eventually becoming a creative director. She eventually landed at Facebook, where she has worked as Head of Creative on the Facebook app leading the brands “More Together” and Facebook Groups work. Sue is now Head of Creative on Instagram at Facebook's in-house agency, Creative X.
Executive Vice President, Group Executive Producer, Edelman
Christina O’Rourke leads creative production for Edelman’s Chicago, DC and Atlanta offices. Christina’s team takes pride in the simple motto, “We make anything,” whether that means producing a celebrity-studded documentary series about pasta, building a massive cereal-themed pop-up restaurant in NYC, or creating a fried-chicken-scented fire log for KFC.
Director, Creative, Make-A-Wish
Adele Mulford serves as the Creative Director at Make-A-Wish America, leading a talented multi-discipline team that produces best-in-class integrated design, editorial, video, storytelling and project management solutions that build a stronger brand. As an active mentor and trainer, she has led creative courses in the U.S., Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Malaysia and India, inspiring audiences with her creative wit and wisdom.
Creative Director for Planned Parenthood
Ande Hubbard is a Brooklyn-based creative director at Planned Parenthood Federation of America where she works with an amazing team of creators, producers, activists and strategists. She believes that everyone deserves access to high-quality health care. In her spare time she photographs street art, watches her six-year-old build legos and chases him down ski slopes.
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Chief Creative Officer, Weber Shandwick
Ciro joined Weber Shandwick as Chief Creative Officer in February of 2021 and has been a keynote speaker at Cannes Lions, Ted Talk and D&AD; promoting diversity, culture intelligence and creativity.
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Senior Director, Content & Creative, International Rescue Committee
For over a decade, Vera has led multi-disciplinary creative teams to build organizational brand affinity, told moving stories of transformation, and delivered innovative experiences for the organization’s supporters. Under her leadership, the creative teams have reimagined global brands, supported record revenue growth, created ground-breaking live programs, and produced an award-winning creative portfolio.
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Vice President, Creative, Marriott International
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Interactive Creative Director at PPK
Dmitrii brings a unique combination of art and technology expertise, and business acumen to the table. He started his career at Moscow Stock Exchange and later received a scholarship to obtain his MS in Marketing and MBA degrees at the University of Tampa’s Sykes College of Business.
Our other creative jurors include Genet Lakew (Digital Content Director of the National Urban League).
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Strategy
Director of Social Strategy, Havas San Francisco
Caine has led the Havas San Francisco social media department since 2015, working closely with both creative and digital strategy to formulate effective and business-driven social media campaigns and activations across an array of digital channels for brands of all sizes. Caine has immense knowledge and understanding of the digital space and how social media can drive specific brand goals and objectives for some of the largest brands in the world.
Global Head of Social Marketing, Facebook
Eric is a marketing executive, angel investor, and active advocate for the Asian American community. Currently at Facebook, Eric has held marketing leadership roles at Stitch Fix, Gap Inc, Airbnb, Snapchat, and Nike. As an Investor at Hyphen Capital and an independent advisor, Eric has been very grateful to help build disruptive brands like Yumi, Wardrobe, Upaway, Fyllo, and many others.
Vice President, Entertainment Partnerships & Influencer Marketing Strategy, Ketchum
Erin Hanley joined Ketchum Sports & Entertainment (KSE) in May 2015 to manage branded content partnerships across the television, film and digital landscape for clients such as Kimberly-Clark, Clorox, Frito-Lay, Maytag and General Mills among others. Erin currently leads key influencer campaigns for clients such as Kite Hill, Kimberly Clark, and Maytag, managing up to 70 programs with influencers, content creation and agreements each year.
Vice President of Media, Social & Emerging, Ad Council
As VP of Media at the Ad Council, Laurie works in the unique intersection of advertising, media/technology, and social good. Based in San Francisco, Laurie manages Ad Council's West Coast Media team, where she builds and manages relationships with major media, tech and entertainment companies to develop large-scale, innovative social-impact campaigns raising awareness on AdCouncil’s 40+ social causes.
VP, Strategy & Client Services, SocialFly
Maria Sparling has spent her entire 17+ year career in the digital strategy space, with the last 12 years focused on developing successful, data-driven, socially-led marketing programs. Throughout her experience she has worked with brands like Volvo, General Mills, Coty, Hawaiian Tropic, Schick, Playtex, Guess Watches, Timex, L'Oreal, Dr. Scholl's and others to build unique digital approaches that span a variety of elements connected to social, including influencer, augmented reality, experiential and more.
Allan provides strategic oversight across a variety of disciplines and partners and heads up the social and strategic disciplines for MOCEAN/O2. He joined MOCEAN after 13 years of leading strategy and social efforts at various agencies including hi5, Laundry Service, and The Marketing Arm. His award-winning work spans across global campaigns for Beats by Dre, Spotify, Cisco, Netflix, Converse, Amazon, Hotels.com, Frito Lay, and Pepsi.
VP, Group Director - Digital Strategy & Comms Planning
Mike Dossett leads the digital strategy department at RPA, where he and his team oversee integrated marketing for all RPA clients across consumer technology, automotive, insurance, CPG, retail, and more. A recognized industry leader, Dossett has been featured in major publications including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Adweek, and Business Insider.
Chief, Digital Strategy, UNICEF
As the Chief of Digital Strategy at UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, Penni oversees global digital communications and helps shape and amplify UNICEF’s powerful and compelling voice. By distributing breakthrough multimedia content through social media channels that exceed 100 million followers, Penni leads her team in building awareness of the issues facing the world’s most vulnerable children. Penni is also responsible for driving a global UNICEF digital transformation initiative to elevate digital infrastructure, governance and organizational expertise across 190 countries.
SVP of Strategy for the Truth Initiative
RG Logan leads efforts to develop and define the Truth Initiative brand. As the organization expands its efforts beyond teen smoking prevention to include the opioid epidemic, he is creating a cohesive strategy that helps connect the organization to agency and media platform partners.
Our other outstanding strategy jurors include Preeti Desai (Director, Social Media and Storytelling, National Audubon Society), Pilar Harris (Senior Director, Global Corporate Partnerships, Global Citizen), and Nick Susi (Head of Strategy, Complex Collective).
Engagement
Senior Director, Marketing and Brand Engagement, LA28
Olivia is the Senior Director of Marketing and Brand Engagement at LA28, the Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2028. Olivia leads the integrated marketing strategy across all digital, brand, and fan engagement experiences. Olivia is responsible for collaborating across functions to ensure LA28 continues to build and make a positive impact for the fans and the community.
Director, Audience Engagement, PBS
Taryn Stewart is dedicated to amplifying the voice of PBS.org in many ways, speaking directly to audiences via the PBS.org homepage, key PBS e-newsletters, and other PBS.org content projects. She also spearheads the annual PBS Short Film Festival, which highlights short-form independent films from across public media.
Director of Social and Influencer Engagement, Kellogg Company
Jaquez leads influencer and social media engagement for the Kellogg Company. She is responsible for successful campaigns including the Kellogg’s cereal café, Frosted Flakes Mission Tiger and Pop-Tarts first Tik Tok Hashtag challenge and MorningStar Farms “Vegenity” campaign.
SVP, Engagement & Social of FCBCURE
Liz Gopaul develops social strategies and implementation plans to bridge the gap between brand communications, effectively deploying the right content across social channels. With 17 + years of expertise, Liz has partnered with Fortune 100 companies to create social strategies within the pharmaceutical/biotech (HCP, DTC), rare disease, CPG, automotive, and beauty sectors.
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Head of Entertainment, Celebrity & Influencer Partnerships, Partners in Health
Kelly is a talent relations expert with eight years of experience creating celebrity and influencer partnerships for globally recognized brands. She developed expertise at the intersection of pop culture, television, and fashion through her work at leading entertainment companies: Rain Management, Next Models, United Entertainment Group, and R/GA. Over the last decade, Kelly produced hundreds of talent partnerships and developed social strategies for a wide variety of brands: Audi, Nike, Oprah's Book Club, and American Express.
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VP Culture & Entertainment Engagement, XPrize
John Rash is charged with harnessing the power of culture & entertainment to create and build a new mainstream consumer engagement platform for the Foundation in order to elevate the scale of reach and impact of the organization in the world.
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Global Head of Culture & Brand Experience, Twitter
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Director of Community Management, Wunderman Thompson
Culture-driven department head trying not to overthink “it” – Keith Kunis
Keith believes in telling _______ stories, creating _______ content, and building _______ social communities. Clients over his career include Nike, Google, Adidas, Samsung, Netflix, Uber Eats, Red Bull, and Starbucks. When he’s not working you can find him engaging with sneaker and fashion content or using his streetwear brand TRILLBLAZIN as a test & learn.
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The rest of our amazing Engagement jurors includes Sarah Epler (Director Of Audience Development and Social Media for Verizon Media).
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Phenom
Head of Global Brand Experiences, Pinterest
Judy Lee is the Head of Global Brand Experiences at Pinterest, where she leads the teams that bring the Pinterest brand to life through events, experiences and programming to audiences around the globe. Recognized for her work in transforming Pinterest's brand experiences, Judy has been named an Adweek Woman Trailblazer, a Top Woman to Watch by Brand Innovators and a Top Woman in Events by Event Marketer.
Jens Marklund is a Swedish Creative Director and Head of Design at Ogilvy. His previous clients include Google, Smirnoff, Hermés, DKNY, Joan and Apple. His work has been featured on Wired.com, Fast Company, Dwell, The Verge and seen on billboards, packaging, and buildings globally.
Our other phenomenal phenom jurors include Zamile Vilakazi (SVP & Head of Production for 22squared) and Mei Fong (Chief Communications Officer, Human Rights Watch).
We are so excited about this year’s diverse jury. If you want to be considered for our Shorty Impact Awards, remember to submit here before our final deadline on Tuesday, September 28 at 11:59pm EDT. Also make sure to stay tuned here on our blog and on our socials as we continue to announce our jurors!