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Building an Ethical Fashion Company: A Fireside Chat with Laura Meléndrez, Amor & Rosas

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Join Accelerate Yale for a conversation with Laura Meléndrez (SOM), co-founder of Amor & Rosas, an ethical fashion company based in Mexico City. Laura and her co-founders started the company while still graduate students at Yale. Since then, the brand and its operations have evolved while preserving a commitment to paying a living wage to Mexican artisans and keeping sustainability in mind.

THIS WEBINAR IS HOSTED BY ACCELERATE YALE AND CO-SPONSORED BY YALEWOMEN AND THE YALE LATINO ALUMNI NETWORK (YLAN). IT IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE YALE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SHARED INTEREST GROUPS. By registering for this webinar, you agree to sharing your email address with these groups for future communication.

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Mar 10, 2021 08:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Mar 10, 2021 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Building an Ethical Fashion Company: A Fireside Chat with Laura Meléndrez, Amor & Rosas Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M3Q5ArKiT0WW3nuy4KGCOQ After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Laura Melendrez MAM ‘16 (Co-Founder & Managing Director @Amor & Rosas) Laura Meléndrez MAM ‘16 was born in Arizona, grew up in Sinaloa, Mexico, and has lived in Mexico City since 2012. She holds a Bachelor´s degree in Marketing from the Monterrey Institute of Technology, an MBA from the EGADE School of Business with a Master in Advanced Management from the Yale School of Management. Laura has lived in Italy, Canada, and the U.S. Her areas of expertise are social entrepreneurship, fashion, marketing and sales in retail. Laura is a self-driven person who enjoys taking on new challenges, an intrapreneur and entrepreneur. More recently, she co-founded Amor & Rosas, an ethical fashion brand, with the objective to transform the lives of those women who wear A&R´s clothes, but also transform the lives of those women who make the garments. Wendy Maldonado D'Amico '93 (Director @Accelerate Yale & Yale Angels) Wendy Maldonado D’Amico ’93 is the Chief of Staff and Head of Marketing at FounderTribes, an app for underserved entrepreneurs providing education, mentorship, and a path to capital. Prior to her role at FounderTribes, she produced #50WomenAtYale150, a groundbreaking virtual symposium commemorating the dual milestones of coeducation at Yale. She was born in Mexico's Bajio, and emigrated to the United States as a child. She was one of Latina Magazine’s Top Ten Women of the Year in 2003. She holds a BA in English from Yale University, an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School, and an MBA from MIT Sloan. She serves as a member of the YAA Board of Governors, and is a Director of Accelerate Yale and Yale Angels. Ellen Su '13 (Leadership Team @Accelerate Yale) Ellen Su ‘13 is the Chief Product Officer at Wellinks, Inc., formerly known as Convexity Scientific, Inc. As the former CEO and Co-Founder of the startup Wellinks, which was acquired by Convexity Scientific, Ellen has raised funding, directed product, led design, and formed critical business relationships. At the core, she is an operations and product person who focuses on empowering creative teams to deliver user-critical features. She is a member of the leadership teams of Accelerate Yale and Yale Angels.

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