📢 Model Mafia: Celebrating 8 Years of Climate Action & Launching Inaugural Model Mentorship Program
Since its founding Model Mafia has been dedicated to investing in model leadership and affirming the skill, opportunity, and inventive work fashion models do from in front of and behind the camera in building culture. We know that with our collective power we can take powerful climate action, particularly through strategic communication and raising the ambition inside our industry we can help make the world just and sustainable.
From showing up at marches and rallies to the #SupplyChange anti-deforestation campaign, organizing clothing swaps, book groups, and film screenings, to fundraising for frontline communities pushing back against climate chaos, we gather to celebrate organizing in unlikely spaces and support each other’s visions for a more caring present and future.
SPECIAL NOTE: this will also serve as the launch for our inaugural model mentorship program, matching up-and-coming talent with experienced mentors in their area of interest (media creation, health, business, art, politics etc). If you’d like to be part of this program, please fill out this intake form, we’ll do our best to match everyone who applies!
Featured speakers & mentors include:
📢 Dominyka Bernes, Model & Founder of Amber Light Beauty
📢 Gelila Bekele, model & filmmaker
📢 Britt Bergmeister, Model & Founder of On Duty Citizen
📢 Sinead Bovell, Model & Founder of WAYE
📢 Jazzmine Carthon, Model & Founder of Models For Change Now
📢 Brana Dane, Model & Writer
📢 Andreea Diaconu, model, founder of Open Door Romania, Columbia Climate School Student, Remake Fellow
📢 Kenza Fourati, Model & Founder of OSAY
📢 Anne Therese Gennari, model, author of The Climate Optimist Handbook
📢 Zaina Gohou, model & founder of Zacao World
📢 Hawa Hassan, Model & Author of In Bibi’s Kitchen, host of Spice of Life show on the Food Network, Founder of BasBaas Foods
📢 Madeleine Macgillivray, Model, Climate Advocate, & Founder of Superheroes Needed
📢 Mari Malek, model, founder of Runways to Freedom, Stand for Education, and Wau Brands
📢 Cameron Russell, Model, Organizer, & Author How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone
📢 Kaye Li Taylor, model & founder of Vision Kaye Li
📢 Austria Ulloa, model and curator at 404 Art Collection
📢 Paradis Winslet, Model & Founder of PARADIS WINSLET
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