Stanford Law School Dean Elizabeth Magill discusses the critical work of the 2014 Bright Award Recipient Art Sterritt in this Stanford Report article. 

For a professional artist, sculptor and goldsmith, Art Sterritt has led a remarkably successful second life as an environmental conservationist.

As the founding executive director of Coastal First Nations (CFN) in British Columbia, Canada, Sterritt led the establishment of the 21-million-acre Great Bear Rainforest, a protected 250-mile stretch of coastline north of Vancouver. The ecosystem accounts for a quarter of the world's remaining coastal temperate rainforests, and CFN has established services within it that allow member nations to create sustainable businesses within the territory.

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“Art has done remarkable work in helping to preserve the Great Bear Rainforest, and it's one of the great environmental achievements in North America in recent history,” said M. Elizabeth Magill, the Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean of Stanford Law School.