Sustainability Social - Sustainable Consumption and Fashion♻️🧢
Join us this March to learn more about Sustainable Consumption and Fashion, with an exclusive guest speaker panel, and more!
About this event:
This edition of Sustainability Social strives to introduce and discuss sustainable consumption as well as address one of the world's largest sources of waste and emissions, the fashion and clothing industry.
For this edition of Sustainability Social we have an array of special guests coming to showcase how they have worked in the sustainable fashion industry and how to make our consumption of fashion more sustainable, while in style.
At this event we will:
Learn from experts in the industry and their trajectory with sustainable fashion
Experience and interact with different business solutions through open collaboration labs
Network and discuss with like-minded individuals that care about the impact of sustainability
Guest speakers
Alexina Prather - Shop Alexina
Alexina Prather is the Founder of Shop Alexina - a sustainable clothing brand that creates upcycled and repurposed pieces using secondhand clothing. Through this brand, Alexina promotes the slow fashion industry by creating one-of-a-kind clothing items that new owners will (hopefully) love and cherish for years to come. Beyond creating conversation-starting designs, Alexina’s mission is to educate consumers about the current state of the fashion industry and empower them to reduce their waste and shop more consciously. Alexina promotes finding clothes that you can invest in and wear forever. Reusing is the best first step in any recycling process and that is why the designs are created with secondhand materials.
As the Program Manager of Axis Helps, a platform that connects Miami-based small businesses owners to resources, Alexina is passionate about improving access to information, programs, and capital for all entrepreneurs. Prior to moving to Miami, Alexina lived in New York City working for an international social enterprise providing asset-based loans to subsistence farmers in East Africa. Alexina completed a Master's of Science degree in Sustainable Business from the University of Miami and holds a Bachelor's degree from Northeastern University.
Ariel Bacal - Blanx
Ariel Bacal is a seasoned entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience running companies and startups in the footwear, fashion and retail industries. With deep knowledge of manufacturing, supply chain, marketing and go-to-market strategy. Currently working as a founder of Blanx (www.blanx.me) a sneaker brand that leverages on collaborations to convey a socially relevant message.
Rossanna Ceccato - Redress
Rossanna Ceccato is the CEO and Founder behind Redress, the 1st scalable clothing swapping platform in the US. Ceccato is a Venezuelan entrepreneur with more than fifteen years of experience in the fashion world, with several retail and wholesale ventures in countries such as Colombia, Venezuela, and the US. Rossanna graduated from Santa Maria University with a CPA and Business Administration Degree in her native Venezuela, later pursuing and obtaining a Master in Sales and recently an Entrepreneurship certificate from the Wharton School of Business at UPenn. In recent years, she was part of the world’s largest pre-seed accelerator Founders Institute joining the 2020 Miami cohort and in 2021 became alumni of Babson College WIN Growth Lab Venture Innovation program for women. As an exponential innovator of the Purpose Alliance Program and as a certified international conference speaker Ceccato has been considered one of the entrepreneurs that best represents innovation in the clothing industry and was recently invited to participate as a TED speaker in the 2022 TEDx Game Changers Edition Conference.
Jerchovia Moxey - Moxey
Jerchovia Moxey is a self-taught sewist and designer from Nassau, Bahamas. Her style and fashion sense date back to days of hand-me-downs and thrifts before sustainable fashion hit mainstream. Her love for color, art, and conversation lead her into the world of advertising and design. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science Degree in Global Strategic Communications, specializing in Art Direction with FIU and Miami Ad School. Her entrepreneurial spirit and passion for fashion have blended her two worlds as a 2021-2022 Raclife Art + Design Fellow. Most likely to be creative and fashionable, Jerchovia dares to teach her way through sewing, style, and society with the same vibrance she wants directly displayed in her self-titled sustainability-conscious fashion brand, Moxey
Who Should Attend? 😄
Any student, faculty, alumni, or community member who wants to learn more about sustainability is welcome to join us, regardless of the major or previous level of expertise.
About StartUP FIU: ⭐️
StartUP FIU is a university-wide initiative that fosters and develops entrepreneurship and innovation to help our students, researchers, and community connect, contribute to, and thrive in today’s fast-changing world. We create and run programs based on two foundational beliefs: that the skills and principles of entrepreneurship are essential to navigate and harness the opportunities of our disruptive age, and that universities can play a unique role in unlocking opportunity and unleashing the potential to shape a better, more inclusive, and more innovative future.
Questions?
Adrian Mills - StartUP FIU Student Leader - Admills@fiu.edu
Gustavo Grande - Director, Venture Ready Programs - ggrande@fiu.edu