Meet the Grunin Prize Finalists

In this episode, Zvia Schoenberg, executive director of the Grunin Center, speaks with Sonal Rawat, NYU School of Law LLM '26. For the past academic year, Sonal has been part of the NYU Legal Changemakers Incubator, a program in its inaugural year. This initiative is designed to support a select cohort of LLM students as they undertake legal projects that address timely societal/environmental issu...

In this episode, Zvia Schoenberg, executive director of the Grunin Center, speaks with Tessa van Soest, executive director of B Lab Benelux, Jacobien Viets, fractional general counsel for Alliance Business Counsels, and Alexandra Pimor, director of nature governance at the Earth Law Center, to discuss their project: Onboarding Nature Toolkit & Movement. This project galvanizes business as a fo...

In this episode, Zvia Schoenberg, executive director of the Grunin Center, speaks with Betty Francisco, CEO of Boston Impact Initiative, and Carl Valenstein, partner at Morgan, Lewis, & Blockius LLP,  to discuss their project: Boston Impact Initiative Fund II.  BII Fund II is a $22M fund democratizing investment via a tiered note structure. It allows non-accredited individuals to invest $1,000...

In this episode, Zvia Schoenberg, executive director of the Grunin Center, speaks with Marella Caramazza, board member for Cottino Social Impact Campus, and Emiliano Giovine, lawyer and scientific director of the legal impact pillar for Cottino Social Impact Campus, to discuss their project: Integrating social impact into public asset management.  The project introduces a legally grounded framewor...