Learn ways and approaches to development and design so that your materials and products can be produced more responsibly and sustainably and work towards circularity.
With Andrea Kennedy from LIM College and Fashiondex.com
Calculating transportation and product impacts
Gain expertise on how to measure and calculate the CO2 emissions of a supply chain for a fashion product. With Nina Kaledin from Flexport.org
Discover how to source materials and products that are environmentally- and socially-responsible as well as understand the complexities of eco-certifications & standards for impact minimization.
With Katina Boutis from Everlane & LIM College
Measure the environmental impacts of your materials and styles and create action plans to reduce those impacts and make sustainable change at your company with targets and goals to get there.
With Stewart Sheppard from Sustainable Apparel Coalition's Higg Index
Virtual Sustainability Certificate Workshop
Schedule (please note- schedule is subject to change based on each session length):
Nina Kaledin
Flexport.org
Program Associate
Nina Kaledin is on the Programs team at Flexport.org, Flexport's dedicated sustainability and social impact group. She helps leading brands measure, reduce and offset their carbon footprint through logistics, and manages key environmental partnerships for decarbonization. Nina is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
Katina Boutis
Director of Sustainability
Everlane
Katina Boutis is the Director of Sustainability at Everlane where she is responsible for the environmental and social sustainability impacts across the business including product, raw materials, supply chain, and operations. She is responsible for setting and achieving the brand’s social and environmental commitments, from factory transparency to carbon reduction to removing virgin plastics and conventional cotton from product and supply chain. She also shapes Everlane’s sustainability narrative and storytelling, translating impact initiatives into engaging consumer-facing stories.
Prior to joining Everlane, Katina held the same role at Loomstate, where she focused primarily on organic cotton production and sourcing, building fully traceable and transparent supply chains in organic cotton with quantified environmental and social impacts.
Katina is also an Adjunct Professor at LIM College, teaching Sustainability and the Future of Fashion. She holds a MS degree in Sustainability Management from Columbia University, and a BA in Environmental Science from Hunter College.
Andrea Kennedy
Associate Chair & Sustainability Professor, LIM College
Founder & Sustainability Lead, Fashiondex
Andrea Kennedy is a sustainable fashion educator, strategist, designer, and consultant. She founded Fashiondex.com and is Associate Chair of Fashion Merchandising and Sustainability and Fashion professor at LIM College, as well is Co-Chair of LIM's College's Sustainability Task Force. Andrea is sustainability lead at Fashiondex.com, a member and mentor at the Climate Reality Leadership Corps, Transparency Strategic Council member of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, and mentor at the U.N. SDSN network. She has designed and merchandised for major fashion labels including Calvin Klein, Ann Taylor, Bob Mackie, Pierre Cardin, Sunny Leigh and Groovy on Grand. She is the author of sustainability articles and sourcebooks including The Fashion Designer's Sustainable Sourcebook, The Apparel Design and Production Handbook- A Technical Reference, and Apparel Costing. She holds a BA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design, an M.Ed in Education for Sustainability from Manhattanville College, and is a Zankel Fellow for climate change education at Columbia University's Teachers College.
Stewart Sheppard
Director of sustainability & training Higg Index