Rev Yearwood’s work has been recognized over the last 30 years as innovative, people-centric and solutions oriented for the liberation of Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. His impact is felt across the climate justice movement and is one of the driving forces behind real progress toward a healthier, wealthier future for communities of color.
2024 Leadership Award
- Green 2.0
- December 2024
2024 Forbes Sustainability Leaders Award
- Forbes
- September 2024
2024 Environmental Champion Award
- Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital (DCEFF)
- March 2024
2024 Excellence in Creative Climate Communication Award
- Inside the Greenhouse at the University of Colorado Boulder
- March 2024
Outstanding Limited Series/Short Form Podcast
- NAACP Image Awards (nominated)
- January 2024
Outstanding Short Form Documentary
- NAACP Image Awards (nominated)
- January 2024
New Green Hero
- Rolling Stone
- April 2013
White House Champion of Change
- The White House
- July 2013
Ebony Power 100
- Ebony Magazine
- June 2010
Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award
- Institute for Policy Studies
- 2006