Pomeroy
(pictured) is a designer and goldsmith, as well as the founder
of an Oregon-based sustainable-jewelry brand that bears his name. He is also an
activist for social and environmental responsibility in the jewelry industry. He
is on the board of the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) — which created
the Fairmined Gold Standard — and founded the Mercury Free Mining Challenge, a
global call to engineers, scientists and academics to discover a safe,
effective alternative to mercury.
“Toby epitomizes the kind of person for whom we created the
award, and we are honored and delighted to be conferring it on him at the event,”
said selection committee co-chairs Lisa Koenigsberg, president of the IAC, and
Christina Miller, cofounder and former director of Ethical Metalsmiths.
Pomeroy will receive the award at IAC’s Eighth
Annual International Gold Conference, which will take place April 12 to 13 at
the Bohemian National Hall in New York.