2025 EIP Award Winner

The 2025 Esri Innovation Prize has been awarded to Harvard College student Summer J. Smentek for the entry “Keeping the ‘Live’ in Livestock and Livelihoods: Landscape Drivers of Large Carnivore Attacks on Livestock in Laikipia, Kenya”. Judges comments included “A super impressive job of geospatial analysis that covers much of the spectrum of GIS, presented in an engaging format and design. Maps are very well done, and the integration of the geospatial analysis with robust statistical analysis really makes this work stand out as an important contribution to help understand human carnivore conflict.” Congrats to Summer! View the award winning story map. View EIP award details and previous winners.