Agata Smeets is a Director in the Global Sustainability Group at Gap Inc.’s Hong Kong headquarters, where she is responsible for setting environmental sustainability strategy for the company’s sourcing organization. She works with numerous internal and external stakeholders to advance the company’s water and climate initiatives, including reducing water and greenhouse gas consumption across the value chain, shifting to a sustainable fiber portfolio, and driving transparency into Gap Inc.’s supply chain. Ms. Smeets was formerly part of Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy & Operations practice, focusing on sustainable supply chains. She also helped found the Sustainability Forum research effort at the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Executive Board, which brought together 800 cross-functional executives with an interest in sustainability. Ms. Smeets is a graduate of Yale University and Johnson at Cornell.
The Cost of Cheap Clothes
Event Overview
Panelists will offer insight into how their organizations are navigating these issues in the clothing industry and touch upon our role, as customers, in perpetuating the hyperconsumerism which has allowed fast fashion to flourish.
This webinar is hosted by the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise in collaboration with the Global Network Club as part of their annual Cornell Business Impact Symposium.
What You'll Learn
- An overview of the key environmental and labor issues impacting the fashion industry
- How corporate social responsibility and transparency can propel change
- An understanding of how our role as consumers has allowed fast fashion to flourish
Speakers
Natalie Grillon is Executive Director of the Open Apparel Registry, a free and open-source registry and interactive map of global apparel facilities. Championing access to open data and transparent practices, Ms. Grillon has worked for a decade to launch innovative solutions to complex problems in the apparel sector. She is the co-founder of Ethical Creators, training and supporting the next wave of content creators to become catalysts for change in the fashion, beauty, and lifestyle industries, and she co-founded Project JUST, an online platform to help bring transparency to fashion supply chains and empower consumers to shift their purchasing behavior. Ms. Grillon is an Acumen Fellow, an RPCV, and a graduate of Georgetown University (B.S.) and Cornell University (MBA).
Tasha Lewis, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design at Cornell University, where she teaches fashion design management. Her research encompasses the consumer-driven aspects of the fashion industry as it contends with advances in technology, shortened product life cycles, and demands for more social responsibility and transparency. Dr. Lewis’s primary research explores how to assess the value that environmentally sustainable fashion products and supporting manufacturing processes bring to today’s fashion supply chain. Most recently, she has been focused on the post-consumer stage of the textile and clothing recycling process.
Agata Smeets is a Director in the Global Sustainability Group at Gap Inc.’s Hong Kong headquarters, where she is responsible for setting environmental sustainability strategy for the company’s sourcing organization. She works with numerous internal and external stakeholders to advance the company’s water and climate initiatives, including reducing water and greenhouse gas consumption across the value chain, shifting to a sustainable fiber portfolio, and driving transparency into Gap Inc.’s supply chain. Ms. Smeets was formerly part of Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy & Operations practice, focusing on sustainable supply chains. She also helped found the Sustainability Forum research effort at the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Executive Board, which brought together 800 cross-functional executives with an interest in sustainability. Ms. Smeets is a graduate of Yale University and Johnson at Cornell.
Natalie Grillon is Executive Director of the Open Apparel Registry, a free and open-source registry and interactive map of global apparel facilities. Championing access to open data and transparent practices, Ms. Grillon has worked for a decade to launch innovative solutions to complex problems in the apparel sector. She is the co-founder of Ethical Creators, training and supporting the next wave of content creators to become catalysts for change in the fashion, beauty, and lifestyle industries, and she co-founded Project JUST, an online platform to help bring transparency to fashion supply chains and empower consumers to shift their purchasing behavior. Ms. Grillon is an Acumen Fellow, an RPCV, and a graduate of Georgetown University (B.S.) and Cornell University (MBA).
Tasha Lewis, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design at Cornell University, where she teaches fashion design management. Her research encompasses the consumer-driven aspects of the fashion industry as it contends with advances in technology, shortened product life cycles, and demands for more social responsibility and transparency. Dr. Lewis’s primary research explores how to assess the value that environmentally sustainable fashion products and supporting manufacturing processes bring to today’s fashion supply chain. Most recently, she has been focused on the post-consumer stage of the textile and clothing recycling process.
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Panelists will offer insight into how their organizations are navigating these issues in the clothing industry and touch upon our role, as customers, in perpetuating the hyperconsumerism which has allowed fast fashion to flourish.
This webinar is hosted by the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise in collaboration with the Global Network Club as part of their annual Cornell Business Impact Symposium.https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K040821d/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell