Consultancy
Gap Inc’s Design with Audacity programme is a company-wide movement intended to support creative talent. As part of that vision, Gap Inc created a programme in partnership with leaders across the fashion industry, welcoming world-renowned trend forecasters, designers, activists, and authors to talk with creative teams across all brands, setting the context for future innovation. On behalf of the external Creative Advisory Council, two sessions were created that addressed diversity, inclusion, and representation as well as cultural appropriation, challenging design leads to think differently about inspiring, engaging and creating change.
Energizing Futures Ultimate STEM Challenge is a high school-based educational initiative intended to build the science capital of over 1.2 million young people and over 12,000 teachers each year. The 2023 challenge focused on sustainable fashion, for which I supplied case studies and interviews to form the basis of the curriculum.
The Ethical Fashion Initiative is a flagship programme of the United Nations International Trade Centre. The Designer Accelerator supports African design talent that require additional support to accelerate their businesses in the global marketplace. The programme has a business development approach that prepares its beneficiaries to become investment-ready. The EFI helps to bring African fashion design to the world stage through participation in Vogue Fashion Night Out, Pitti Uomo, and Altaroma.