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Sarah Krasley shared thisWhat does extreme heat mean for the people who make our clothes? Their employers? Fashion brands? Join me on Monday 21 September and our partners from Bangladesh for a Cornell University ILR School Global Labor Institute webinar looking at heat stress in the apparel supply chain. Our new research looks at the conditions both inside apparel factories and in workers’ homes. We run the numbers on how to tackle it and how to share the costs. I’ll be sharing the research for the first time, alongside Jason Judd, Tareq Ahmed Robin and Kalpona Akter. 21 September | 9:00am ET Register: https://lnkd.in/dZWZcsNx
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Sarah Krasley shared thisConference season is truly upon us! I’m in Athens this week for Cascale's Annual Meeting, where this year’s theme gets right to the point: Who Pays, Who Profits and What Changes? I’ll be speaking on an American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA)-led panel about some new Cornell University ILR School research on extreme heat, and the day before, I'll sit down in a fireside chat with Logan T Duran with my change management hat on to discuss a question I find particularly interesting: how do sustainability priorities actually make their way into commercial sourcing decisions — and meaningfully change them? I appreciate that we’re cutting to the chase. At a moment when patience is thin and resources are scarce, the hard questions about transformation are increasingly about who pays for change, who benefits from it, and how we shift risk away from workers as quickly as possible. And looking ahead to next week, on September 21, during New York Climate Week, I’ll moderate a Cornell University ILR School Global Labor Institute conversation on heat, work and climate adaptation in Bangladesh’s apparel industry. We’ll bring together perspectives from research, engineering and workers’ organizations to explore the challenges of adapting workplaces — and the wider systems around them — to a hotter climate. I’ll be joined by Jason Judd, Tareq Ahmed Robin, and Kalpona Akter. September 21 | 9:00am ET Join us: https://lnkd.in/gdzZPHWE #extremeheat #heatstress #climateweek #Cascale #changemanagement #sustainability
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Sarah Krasley shared thisThank you, Acumen for including me in this series about why I do the work I do.Sarah Krasley shared thisChange is rarely tidy. Sarah Krasley studies what happens to people, organizations, and communities when disruption hits, and helps them navigate these changes. Find out why this Acumen Academy Foundry member and Visiting Fellow at Cornell University ILR School was inspired to do this work in our latest edition of "One Thing That Changed Everything".
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Sarah Krasley shared thisA very interesting collective action being led by post-production practitioners whose jobs are being impacted by AI. It's well documented that AI creates job displacement and erosion of livelihoods, but there are also impacts to job quality and alignment of values. It'll be great to see how this code of ethics evolves! FYI Zoë West Maria (Marily) Mexi Rachel Arthur Indigo Jones Antonella Maia PeriniSarah Krasley shared thisIn my role as Chief of Client Services, I talk to a lot of people in the advertising industry. And the topic of AI comes up, almost invariably, in every conversation. What we can do with it as post-production experts that others can’t: can we make a billboard-appropriate AI-generative background? A library of products with accurate labels? In an ethical and legal manner, using models that purport themselves to have only learned on licensed imagery? As co-founder of a post-production company that uses ethics and a value of the quality of our craft to guide us, it can’t replace what human creators bring to the table. Since these conversations have been swirling around us so much lately, Salma Khalil and I have decided we want to bring all those affected by GenAI in the image making community together. We are launching The AI Accord, a social impact project and collaborative movement for those committed to responsible, ethical image-making. Through The Accord, we seek to put together a code of ethics to protect human creators in the age of GenAI. We feel compelled to bring like-minded creatives of all sorts in the advertising image-making industry together, from photographers, to creatives at agencies, producers, artist representatives, stylists, set designers, brand creatives, etc. Our initial step is to release an industry-wide survey to get the temperature of creatives in commercial image-making on Tuesday, Sept. 2. Following that, in November, we will be hosting a summit bringing together creatives to build a collective toolkit for ethical image-making, forging an industry consensus and unified path forward with regard to this tech’s usage. We encourage you to share the survey widely when it's published next week, and if you’re interested in following the conversation, to sign up on our Consider the Image mailing list: www.considertheimage.com
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Sarah Krasley reposted thisSarah Krasley reposted thisWhat's better than spending a summer Friday talking about the financial risk of climate inaction in fashion? Well, quite a few things but I promise this will be worth it. The business case for sustainability has flipped. The question is no longer what action costs, but what inaction will. And yet the two conversations that actually price that risk (the financial framework and the operational reality) are almost never in the same room. Tomorrow, Friday, July 31st at 2 PM, I'll be moderating Risk Is the New ROI: Pricing Climate Inaction in Fashion at Texworld New York City - in conversation with Chisara Ehiemere, Senior Research Lead for ROSI™ at NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, and Sarah Krasley, Founder of Shimmy and Visiting Fellow at Cornell University ILR School's Global Labor Institute - designed to bring both perspectives together. We'll unpack what climate inaction actually costs brands, how the NYU Stern ROSI™ methodology quantifies the return on preparing for it, and what real adaptation looks like on the ground, grounded in new heat-risk research from Cornell ILR. Hope to see you there, let me know! Registration Link here - https://lnkd.in/ghMBBTK3
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Sarah Krasley reposted thisSarah Krasley reposted thisDid you know the corporate tax code actually subsidizes burning sportswear? ⚽🔥 With the World Cup behind us, while we may all reminisce about the games and the teams that won and ones that didn’t, I wonder about how many World Cup jerseys are being burned as we speak. When I headed demand planning and inventory mgmt for Nike’s APLA (Asia Pac/LatAm) geography during the World Cup in Brasil, I watched a single 90-minute match (the legendary 7-1 Brasil vs. Germany game) instantly vaporize millions of dollars in fan gear. In sports merchandising, when a star team drops out early, demand collapses overnight. But the standard supply chain playbook makes this problem far worse: ❌ We order millions of finished jerseys from Asia 18 months in advance to chase cheap unit prices. ❌ When forecasts fail, we pay astronomical emergency air freight surcharges to patch inventory gaps. ❌ When deadstock inevitably piles up, brands use "Waste-to-Energy" incineration to get a legally required "Certificate of Destruction" to unlock a corporate tax write-off. Under current tax laws, spending $1.00 to destroy inventory to get $0.21 back in tax relief is treated as standard practice. We are literally using tax subsidies to cushion bad inventory planning and environmental destruction. Yet no one talks about the level of toxins that get generated by this seemingly standard practice, not to mention burning these synthetic jerseys is no different than burning piles and piles of plastic water bottles – would you want to breathe that? I talk about this and the math comparing the various options to deal with the excess and systemically reduce it in my latest article, "The World Cup Deadstock Tragedy" 👇 Read the full article attached below https://lnkd.in/ehwC7z-S #SupplyChain #InventoryManagement #Sustainability #RegenerativeRetail #WorldCup #FashionLogistics #CorporateStrategy
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Sarah Krasley shared thisMost conversations about AI and work begin with a single question: Will AI take our jobs? It's certainly an important question. But Maria (Marily) Mexi and I think there's another one that's becoming just as urgent: What happens when AI doesn't take your job, but fundamentally changes what your job feels like? As part of my fellowship at Cornell University ILR School's Global Labor Institute, we're launching a new research agenda on what we call AI-driven informalization: the process by which a job remains formal on paper while the protections that make formal employment meaningful—autonomy, professional judgment, organizational accountability, stability, and recognition—quietly begin to erode. Maria and I argue that AI's impact won't be measured only in layoffs. It may also be measured in the quiet and not-so-quiet restructuring of job formality itself. This research will explore how these changes are unfolding across occupations and geographies, and what workers, employers, unions, policymakers, and labor institutions can do to ensure AI augments work rather than hollowing it out. Maria and I are excited to hear what resonates—and what we're missing. If you've seen examples of work becoming more fragmented, more platform-like, or more tightly managed through AI while people technically remain "employed," We're interested in hearing your perspective. You can read our introduction here: https://lnkd.in/g5xDpfWi #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #Labor #Employment #AI #LaborRights #Employment #DecentWork #LaborPolicy #WorkforceDevelopment #AIGovernance #DigitalTransformation #PublicPolicy #AIPolicy
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Sarah Krasley reposted thisSarah Krasley reposted thisHave you missed us? Don’t answer that. We’re back. This week’s flooding in Chittagong—Bangladesh’s main port—is serious. Apparel factories have had to shut down their power to protect machines. Workers are stuck in their homes. The image below shows our Chittagong flood projections from our 2023 Higher Ground? reports (page 24) with Schroders. The blue dots factories. The red (river) and gold (coastal) swathes are flooding. Dhaka Tribune story: “what was once viewed as a seasonal urban inconvenience has become one of Bangladesh’s most significant structural economic risks.” The costs for 4.2 million apparel workers and their employers are grave. And what strikes us about the quote above—‘from urban inconvenience to structural economic risk’—is how it describes the other kind of climate breakdown in these workers’ lives: extreme heat. Our new GLI (Cornell University ILR School) analysis is due in September and brings the first calculations of heat stress levels inside factories, the costs of dealing with it and returns on those investments. Stay tuned.
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Sarah Krasley shared thisAppreciated the chance to weigh in on how AI is being used across design, merchandising, and factory floor jobs in the fashion sector for this piece! https://lnkd.in/gsAD8VWk #ai #supplychain #sustainablefashionLevi’s CEO: AI is an ‘amplifier’ for our workers, not a job-takerLevi’s CEO: AI is an ‘amplifier’ for our workers, not a job-taker
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Sarah Krasley reacted on thisSarah Krasley reacted on thisMy colleague, Nandita, and I spent a week in Bangkok in and around the UN Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum - Asia-Pacific this past month, exploring the role of data as a convening mechanism. - We hosted a session with H&M and Dabindu Collective on how brands and unions can build shared approaches to labor data. - HeatWatch presented its dashboard, which layers OS Hub facility data with heat and humidity data to identify garment production locations in India facing high heat risk, and the different actors connected to them. - At the Business and Human Rights Centre session on realizing a just transition, Nandita, our Account Manager for Trade Unions and Civil Society Organizations, spoke about the role open data ecosystems can play in making a just transition more transparent, accountable and responsive to workers. - Beyond the formal sessions, we brought together stakeholders working on gender data — from trade unions and multi-stakeholder initiatives to grievance mechanism providers — to discuss what kinds of gender data should be made more open in global supply chains, and how to ensure that this data is safe, contextually relevant and useful. These conversations will help shape how we bring more gender-related data into OS Hub in the coming year. - We also spent time with trade unions from Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand working across garment, agriculture, and seafood supply chains, exploring how data and data strategy informs their research, organizing and advocacy. The feedback we heard again and again: the people closest to supply chains know what data is missing, what information is most reliable, and what risks come with making different kinds of data open. And that often then led to different versions of this question: how can open data become the link between localized approaches & the critical nuance they bring, and globally scaled datasets & organizations? Have thoughts or want to help answer that? Let us know! #UNRBHR2026 #BusinessAndHumanRights #HRDD #ResponsibleBusiness #SupplyChains Thank you for the conversations, feedback and questions: Shafiar Rana Social & Labor Convergence Program Shelly Heald Han Tiffany Rogers Fair Labor Association Shumin Liu Sara Park Better Work Munir Uddin Shamim Ethical Trading Initiative Nivedita Jayaram Women's Fund Asia Green Bangla Garments Workers Federation Smita Nimilita Agnès Pondaven Ulula - An EcoVadis Company Ines Kaempfer Ryan Heman Humanity United Maria Isabel C. Arun Murugesh, Maria Hengeveld, PhD SOMO and many more.
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Sarah Krasley reacted on thisSarah Krasley reacted on thisArtificial intelligence is rapidly changing work, and our workforce development systems must evolve alongside it. Jobs for the Future (JFF) is proud to support Senator Captain Mark Kelly's Make AI Work for Americans Act, which would direct new resources through the systems workers already rely on while expanding access to education and training, strengthening paid service-to-career pathways, supporting entrepreneurship, and helping people navigate job transitions. The bill recognizes that AI policy must be about more than technology. It must also help workers build skills, access quality jobs, and navigate economic change. We applaud Senator Kelly’s leadership in advancing a vision for AI that puts workers and communities at the center and helps ensure technological progress expands economic opportunity. Read more about the Make AI Work for Americans Act: https://lnkd.in/gMTAjHka
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Sarah Krasley reacted on thisPlease take the time to read. we need to understand and help factories mitigate climate challenges or disruption to the supply chain will cost us more than we can imagine. There is no escaping this reality.Sarah Krasley reacted on thisOur new heat adaptation report is published--at the link below. This analysis we've built from the ground up and from the inside out, using the unique data sets we've organized from eight Dhaka-region apparel factories and three dozen workers’ homes to calculate the costs of high heat stress in 2025 and estimate the returns on cooling investments. To get there we worked closely over 12 months with managers, worker leaders, brands, mechanical engineers, finance and energy specialists, epidemiologists, architects, econometricians and more. Phew. If it looks too long to read, watch the launch video at the GLI site and read our executive summary--'Six seasons, four summers in five graphs' (and a table or two). And join us at 7 p.m. Dhaka, 3 p.m. CET and 9 a.m. Eastern for the discussion withe Sarah Krasley, Tareq Ahmed Robin, Shamim Ferdose, Kalpona Akter, Pete Ford and me. That's a pretty good line-up. Register at eCornell link in comments. https://lnkd.in/ezaa25DMSix Seasons, Four Summers: How to Solve Fashion's High Heat ProblemSix Seasons, Four Summers: How to Solve Fashion's High Heat Problem
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Sarah Krasley liked thisSarah Krasley liked thisI want to share a decision that marks a significant change for me, and I didn’t want to reduce that moment to a few lines. After decades of experience, there are far too many people, lessons, challenges, friendships that deserve more reflection than that. After nearly eight years with Dassault Systèmes, I’ve stepped away from my full-time role. So beginning this new chapter, I wanted to take some time to write about the journey, what reflecting on it has taught me, and why having the freedom to choose what comes next feels so significant. If we’ve worked together somewhere along the way, there’s a very good chance you've helped shape the journey I’m reflecting on, and probably more than you know.A Career and the Freedom to Choose What Comes NextA Career and the Freedom to Choose What Comes Next
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Sarah Krasley liked thisSarah Krasley liked thisI very much enjoyed speaking and meeting old and new friends at the Cascale Conference Conference in Athens last week (formerly known as the Sustainable Apparel Coalition). And of course it inspired a blog! I talk about system-thinking, and the issue of heat stress in particular (a key focus of the last day of the conference) - flagging recent reports from the American Apparel and Footwear Association, and also Sarah Krasley at Cornell University - who is launching her Bangladesh report today. Thanks in particular to Cascale's new CEO Ying McGuire, Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, Christina Fleming-Mašánová, and great to meet Jeff Vockrodt, Rick Ridgeway and thanks to everyone who bought my new book!!!!! My blog also starts with some greek mythology...
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Sarah Krasley reacted on thisSarah Krasley reacted on thisProud to be part of the Comcast team opening the new community resource center at North10, Philadelphia. Through a joint investment of more than $170,000 with the Philadelphia 76ers, the space now provides free high-speed Xfinity WiFi, new technology, digital learning tools, and workforce development programming for the North Philadelphia community. Inspiring to see what's possible when organizations come together to expand access to opportunity. https://lnkd.in/e-Sm3zgH
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Sarah Krasley liked thisSarah Krasley liked thisCheck out the exciting speakers and join us on Tuesday during #ClimateWeekNYC for this important discussion! RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/etihmcb9 Proud that Working Horizons | Horizontes do Trabalho | Horizontes de Trabajo is co sponsoring with WIEGO - Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing Solidarity Center Global Fund for a New Economy & Fundación Avina to power a #justtransition! #NYCW2026 #NYClimateWeek #workerpower Maritza Silva-Farrell Kabir (Qabeer) Arora (Jalandhari), Ph.D. Amalia Hammarlund Pedro Rossi Carmen Roca Jordan Estevao Dorcas Murasi Alice de Moraes Amorim VogasPowering a Just Transition: How Worker Inclusion in Climate Implementation, Governance and Finance Accelerates Climate ActionPowering a Just Transition: How Worker Inclusion in Climate Implementation, Governance and Finance Accelerates Climate Action
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Sarah Krasley liked thisSarah Krasley liked thisAthens, Bangkok, Strasbourg. Busy week for the SLCP team. I was in Athens with Lottie Watkinson Laura Jans Janet Mensink and was speaking about the latest in the EU social policy landscape. Key takeaways of the week for me are: 1. Heat stress is the top social topic right now and we need to find the balance of understanding the facility (and worker) context while collecting data for brand compliance at scale 2. Suppliers need more support with understanding the complex policy landscape 3. We have tools to collect the data, but we need to ensure there are accessible ways to interpret that data and collaboratively drive improvements. 4. Lots of opportunities for interoperability and data sharing, with some great examples shared. Urgency to act on this to reduce duplication remains clear. 5. EU Social Policy landscape (CSDDD, CSRD, FLR) are on the radar and implementation is coming. Further guidance, clarity of expectations, and policy coherence across the EU will help, along with pointing stakeholders to credible initiatives. Proud of Shafiar Rana for leading the charge at UN Bangkok, Silvana Rebagliati Castro for hosting a session at UN Strasbourg, and our team for leading a brand session in Athens Lot’s of ideas to put into action as we look towards the end of 2026. Social & Labor Convergence Program
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Sarah Krasley reacted on thisWorking for Andre West was an incredible experience that changed me for the better. He was an extraordinary boss and mentor, and we were true partners in so many things over the last six years. He was a real genius - his work had no boundaries, moving from fashion and design, to military fabrics, to circularity and hemp. His enthusiasm was infectious, and he rallied people to ideas and action daily. He also lifted others up and helped them grow. More importantly, he was a wonderful person - generous, kind, caring, funny, irreverant, resilient. I am so heartbroken that he is no longer with us. I see glimmers of Andre everywhere, and have been hearing his voice a lot over the last few days. And, though I am profoundly sad and miss my friend dearly, those glimmers also bring me some peace knowing that he is still with us in many ways. Devin Steele at eTextileCommunications.com also wrote a beautiful tribute to Andre - https://lnkd.in/gjgf_HAhSarah Krasley reacted on thisWe honor the life and legacy of Professor Andre West, whose impact on the Wilson College of Textiles and the global textile community will be felt for generations. During his 13 years at NC State, West helped shape textile design and manufacturing through his leadership as director of Zeis Textiles Extension, pioneering research in protective apparel and commitment to mentoring students. His inventive contributions to sustainable development and entrepreneurship leave a lasting mark on the college. We extend our deepest condolences to West’s family, friends, former students and colleagues as we remember his lasting legacy. Read more about his life and contributions: http://ncst.at/qyzL50ZOTSZRemembering Dr. Andre West - Wilson College of TextilesRemembering Dr. Andre West - Wilson College of Textiles
Experience & Education
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Board Member
SPESA (Sewn Products Equipment & Suppliers of the Americas)
- Present 2 years 1 month
Science and Technology
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Advanced Manufacturing Taskforce Member - Reskilling Subgroup
World Economic Forum
- Present 7 years 1 month
Economic Empowerment
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Industry and Inclusion Advisory Board Member
URBAN MANUFACTURING ALLIANCE
- 1 year
Economic Empowerment
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Media Technology & Design Commission Member
NYC Department of Education
- 1 year 11 months
Education
Excited to help shape high school curriculum in NYC to help students learn apparel CAD and 3D modeling earlier in their careers. There is a huge talent gap in this area and a great need for NYC-based modelers to help brands and manufacturers in their digital transformation initiatives.
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Commercialization Advisory Board Member
Oregon Best
- 3 years
Science and Technology
I served on the Commercialization Advisory Board for Oregon BEST, an independent, nonprofit organization established by the Oregon Legislature, the Oregon Built Environment & Sustainable Technologies Center (Oregon BEST) builds on the state’s reputation as a national innovator in sustainability, natural resources, and renewable energy.
Oregon BEST's mission is to grow and focus a shared-user, statewide network of university expertise, laboratories, and equipment in the following two…I served on the Commercialization Advisory Board for Oregon BEST, an independent, nonprofit organization established by the Oregon Legislature, the Oregon Built Environment & Sustainable Technologies Center (Oregon BEST) builds on the state’s reputation as a national innovator in sustainability, natural resources, and renewable energy.
Oregon BEST's mission is to grow and focus a shared-user, statewide network of university expertise, laboratories, and equipment in the following two strategic areas:
•Sustainable Built Environment Products and Services
•Renewable Energy Generation
Powered by university research, industry collaboration, and commercialization, Oregon BEST ensures Oregon is a global leader in the green economy.
Publications
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Flexibility is the key to success
Develop 3D
See publicationThe importance of elasticity to not only her new swimsuit designs but to the setting up and running of a successful business
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The Swimwear Industry’s Most Popular Fit Model
New York Magazine
See publicationA profile on my swimwear fit model for New York Magazine's series on striving for perfection: Perfect 10
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Six Rules to Follow When Hiring Your Friends
Fortune Magazine
See publicationNavigating the challenging world of bootstrapping with a little help from your friends.
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Ruffling the established ways
Develop 3D
See publicationTake an established industry, throw in some outsiders with big ideas and you can expect some tension, says Sarah Krasley, as she looks back on the first few months of her new project, X Swimwear.
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Could retail data help us avoid online shopping disappointments?
Develop 3D
See publicationCould data from retailers, fashion brands and shoppers hold the key to better fitting garments and an end to online shopping disappointments?
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Body Scanning Needs To Be A Human Experience
Racked
Trends like the internet of things, fitness trackers, and three-dimensional body data should make it easier, not harder, to be kind to ourselves.
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A step in the right direction
Develop 3D
Mass customisation is still some way off for the fashion industry, says Sarah Krasley – but a pair of shoes seen at New York Fashion Week holds some important clues about how it might be achieved
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Designing smart, connected garments must begin with an emotional experience
Develop 3D
An interview with Billie Whitehouse, founder of fashion and technology company Wearable Experiments on connected clothing and the future of the Internet of Things.
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Leading With Empathy: Human-Centered Design and Engineering
Line Shape Space
See publicationProduct design is a fundamentally compassionate act. After all, the best products come from designers who listen intently to the populations they serve and have empathy for the people who might use their product or service.
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Connecting designers with the ideal manufacturer
Develop 3D
Finding a manufacturer to help you create your product is a lot like dating. In this piece, I talk to Dorian Ferlauto, founder and CEO of Britehub, which aims to help designers make the right match.
Other authorsSee publication
Patents
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METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADAPTIVE APPAREL DESIGN AND APPAREL INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
Issued US Patent No. 12,524,129
Projects
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Apparel Automation Pulse
The Apparel Automation Pulse is a global effort to track the rate of change in automation to better understand workforce displacement and skill gaps.
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Volunteer Sabbatical to Bangladesh to support BSR's HERproject
In response to the Rana Plaza building collapse earlier in 2013, I took a sabbatical to South Asia and lend my skill set to Business for Social Responsibility's HERproject. During this volunteer experience, I suggested ways technology could extend existing programming and learned basic fundamentals of social impacts and factory audits. Please see the Fast Company series listed in "Publications" for more information on my observations.
Fortune Magazine highlighted my trip in an article…In response to the Rana Plaza building collapse earlier in 2013, I took a sabbatical to South Asia and lend my skill set to Business for Social Responsibility's HERproject. During this volunteer experience, I suggested ways technology could extend existing programming and learned basic fundamentals of social impacts and factory audits. Please see the Fast Company series listed in "Publications" for more information on my observations.
Fortune Magazine highlighted my trip in an article they did about sabbaticals: http://fortune.com/2015/03/16/paid-sabbaticals/Other creatorsSee project -
Hari Kuyo
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Along with the Pratt Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator and The Village Zendo, I curated an authentic Hari Kuyo ceremony. Hari Kuyo is a 400 year old Japanese tradition that honors the tools using in making things and is also known as the Broken Needle Ceremony.
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Technology Fellowship at Better Factories Cambodia (1 month)
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I worked as a technology adviser to several of Better Factories Cambodia's existing programmes to help bring transparency to the garment supply chain. While there, I also shadowed ILO factory inspectors as they carried out garment factory audits.
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McGowan Fellowship
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Under Dr. Heather Hudson's direction, I researched opportunities for mobile platforms to enhance and facilitate small business transactions in land-locked African nations. I also researched opportunities for mobile telephony to be used by agrarian workers to increase their skills, on-the-job satisfaction, and overall well-being.
Other creatorsSee project
Honors & Awards
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GSV Elite 200
GSV
Selected as one of the 200 most innovative ed tech companies on the planet.
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Qualifying Team - XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling Challenge
XPRIZE
Leading one of ten teams selected to compete in the final rounds of the XPRIZE competition.
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Microsoft Person of Action
Microsoft
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Greatest Impact Potential
Acumen Fund Civic X Accelerator
Shimmy won Greatest Impact Potential and one of two grants awarded through a peer-reviewed process.
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Grand Challenge Winner 2018
IEEE and 3D Retail Coalition
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Innovation by Design
Fast Company
X Swimwear was an honoree in Fast Company's 2016 Innovation by Design awards in the product design category.
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McGowan Scholar
William McGowan Foundation
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Scholarships and Juried Show Awards
Pratt Institute
Group Show Award for Outstanding Merit in Sculpture; Senior Juried Fine Arts Show Winner; Globalization Conference, Juried Art and Design Show Winner; Pratt Institute Circle Award Winner; Pratt Institute Presidential Merit Scholarship, Redling Scholarship, Roff Scholarship, Senior Internship Award and Scholarship; National English Merit Award and Scholarship
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Bangla
Elementary proficiency
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German
Limited working proficiency
Organizations
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The Underfashion Club
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