The Lumsden Leadership Summit: A Talk on Sustainable Fashion

We are proud to announce the sixth edition of our annual event, The Lumsden Leadership Summit, a unique platform that encourages and inspires the student body and wider community by exposing them to successful women from across all business and society sectors.
Today we invite you to join our talk on Sustainable Fashion, where we have invited interesting, successful and prominent women with careers in business, fashion, and sustainability.

Our speakers for this conference are:

Alina Bassi:
Alina Bassi is a Chemical Engineer turned Entrepreneur with a passion for sustainability. She has over seven years of experience working in energy consulting, carbon footprint analysis, and industrial factories' design and build that convert waste to biofuels in London. After moving to Berlin, she founded Kleiderly in 2019, with a mission to divert textile waste away from landfills and incinerators and give it a new life. She has developed an award-winning, patent-pending technology to transform textile waste into sustainable plastic, thus solving two environmental problems at once. She is an advocate for women in STEM and supports BAME female founders through her venture, Tech In Colour. She is a Google for Startups Female Founder alumni and was recently on the Forbes 30 under 30 list in the Manufacturing and Industry category.

Ann Linsday:
Ann Lindsay was brought up in a remote rural area of Scotland, rigorously educated here in St Andrews. At the tender age of 19 found herself jettisoned into Haute Couture's hothouses in Paris and London. Having trained at L'Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, following a few years behind such stars as Yves St Laurent.
However, after working for Royal Couturier Hardy Amies, and rapidly concluding that achieving great things in the design world was way beyond her talents, she sidestepped into what her mother kindly described as a 'varied' career in journalism. (Writing about anything at any time for anyone who would pay you.) From covering high-end fashion shows to planning several series on 'making something from nothing', a plethora of political profiles, tales of domestic trivia, extracting heartrending memories of childhoods spent in Orphanages, and life stories of refugees from 20 countries who arrived in the UK with nothing. She has written on gardening, biographies on 19th-century plant hunters, and explored Scotland's secret places, which led to several books.
She is now working on semi-fictitious historical novels based on research and articles published on strong female characters in WW2.
Upon the publication of her books, by necessity, she entered the world of public speaking, which has thrived beyond her published books—for example, offering to a ready audience the insider tales about the glory days of 1950s Haute Couture in Paris.
She helped create a small food business, restored most of her homes, and re-sold them, and has by necessity zig-zagged her way through life, bringing up three sons and creating wild (i.e. untidy) gardens.

Ayesha Barenblat
Ayesha is a social entrepreneur with a passion for building sustainable supply chains that respect people and our planet. With over a decade of leadership to promote social justice and sustainability within the fashion industry, she founded Remake to ignite a conscious consumer movement. Remake’s advocacy campaigns, transparency ratings, and citizen education are focused on making fashion a force for good. Ayesha has worked across the public, private, and civil society sectors to promote the rights and dignity of the women who make our clothes.
Prior to leading Remake, she led brand engagement at Better Work, a World Bank and International Labor Organization partnership to ensure safe and decent working conditions within garment factories around the world. She also led the fashion vertical at BSR, providing strategic advice to brands including H&M, Levi Strauss & Company, and Nike on the design and integration of sustainability into business. She has a master’s in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley.

To facilitate the event, we have St Andrews alumni and former Lumsden girl Ella Davies. She has a joint honours degree in Spanish and Art History, and alongside her studies, worked as Creative Head and Front of House for Welly Ball, played Lacrosse, and founded SULKE in 2018, a vintage clothing brand that focuses on redesigning existing outerwear in a distinct new manner. Currently working in Sotogrande, Spain, Ella is hoping to use her degree to pursue a career in the art world whilst also continuing developing her start-up SULKE.

These women will share their work, achievements, and insights as they represent all that we are seeking to promote and inspire in the next generation of leaders.

We are looking forward to seeing you at our event.
Kind regards,
The Lumsden Leadership Summit

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