Fashion & Founders The Podcast
Fashion and Founders The Podcast: Circularity, Tech, & Innovation.
Conversations with founders and innovators working in different sectors of the fashion industry, offering an opportunity to get involved in this growing space. Hear directly from the people building the future of fashion about entrepreneurship, job opportunities, fashion tech, circularity, biomaterials, and more.
Learn from incredible guests across the industry, from rental, resale, nonprofit, PR, policy, start ups, including people at Depop, By Rotation, Pickle, Locker, Fashion Revolution, Eco-Age, Colorifix, and more.
Fashion & Founders The Podcast
22. Fashion Takes Action: Empowering Youth Through Education with Founder Kelly Drennan
This week I spoke with Kelly Drennan, the founder and executive director of Fashion Takes Action (FTA).
FTA is Canada's only non-profit organization devoted to advancing sustainability in the entire fashion system through education, awareness, research and collaboration.
Kelly shares how she started Fashion Takes Action in 2007 and discovered a real need to education and collaboration in sustainable fashion and how in wake of the Rana Plaza Factory Tragedy she found a way to educate and empower young people. Kelly has become a true leader in the industry and served as Fashion Revolution’s country coordinator for Canada for the first three years.
FTA does a lot of work around education so if you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by media around climate change, Kelly offerers her insight with years of expertise on how to effectively approach and communicate these difficult topics. Her work around education in for young people to adults, using fashion as a channel to empower people to take action has created a ripple effect of change.
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