WHEN: Monday, June 21st at 5PM EDT WHAT: Join Glasgow Caledonian New York College for an evening of dynamic conversation with GCNCY alumnae Arissa Agnant, Julie Mastrarrigo, Mariza Scotch and Alexandra Williams. The event will be hosted by Rosa Hakim, who is currently a fellow with GCNYC’S Center for Social Impact & Innovation. GCNYC alumnae will …
WHEN: Tuesday, June 22nd at 12PM EDT WHAT: Join Glasgow Caledonian New York College and the Center for Social Impact and Innovation for a discussion of the newly released book Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment with Author Maxine Bédat, founder and current director of New Standard Institute, and former lawyer and founder …
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WHEN: Thursday, June 17th at 6PM EDT WHAT: GCNYC’s Center for Social Impact & Innovation hosts Making Your Sustainable Vision a Reality: An Interactive Evening with Inspirational Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs. Join us and three dynamic impact visionaries who created successful ventures from concept to operation while they share their stories about how they overcame challenges and …
WHEN: Thursday, June 10th at 12PM EDT WHAT: GCNYC’s Center for Social Impact & Innovation hosts: How to Contract for Human Rights in the Supply Chain. This dialogue features perspectives from the legal academy, legal practice, and a fashion brand speaking to how companies can and should deploy contracting strategies to promote human rights in their supply …
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Gayle is a conscious creative director, foresight analyst and brand strategist. She is a self-professed sleep geek and the creator of pomfy®, a wellness brand, designed to help people get the sleep they need to be their best selves. She is looking to leverage her design direction and development skills to work with an …
Shanley Knox is a GCNYC graduate (’18), brand strategist, and social entrepreneur focused on building labor unions as a digital service in the global south. Her podcast discusses dismantling a business on the cusp on success, a dangerous bias around meaningful work, and the audacious hope of building something new. Podcast Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/36GlbmO8zlDVR0QdPujk9b …
GCNYC’s Center for Social Impact & Innovation hosts social activist and Holocaust survivor Eva Haller in conversation with social entrepreneur and sustainability advocate Dan Bena. Members of the GCNYC Board of Trustees, Eva and Dan were instrumental in the founding of the College and the shaping of our common good mission. Eva will talk about …
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Join GCNYC’s Center for Social Impact and Innovation for The Frontline of Fashion: Imagining an Equitable Future for Retail Employees, an interactive panel discussion with retail leaders from industry, academia, and non profit to discuss the unique and unprecedented challenges facing fashion retail with particular focus on the impact on retail workers. We are excited …
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GCU’s dedication to the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has seen us named number one in the UK for promoting gender equality – and top five in the world – in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) University Impact Rankings. We are ranked 69th in the world overall out of 1155 universities, which places …
GCNYC is pleased to be collaborating with social documentarian, Dr. Ann Feldman, in bringing consciousness about the global water crisis to the GCNYC community in Trimester C with a kick-off event April 21 at 6pm. Between 2007 and 2013, Dr. Feldman helped build a partnership between a desert community in Rajasthan, India, their water center and …
