2023 winner
Atreya Manaswi
United States
Atreya is motivated by a profound love of innovation, research, and helping others. Internationally recognized for his honey bee conservation research—an undertaking supported by the University of Florida and the US Department of Agriculture—Atreya is a prolific public speaker who has been invited to the United Nations on three occasions. He is an award-winning published researcher, a children’s book author, and the CEO and founder of an international STEM empowerment non-profit for children. For his Rise project—which comprises the fourth year of his honey beer research—Atreya developed an organic alternative to toxic and costly chemical treatments that led to a precipitous decline in honeybee populations.