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Title
Changemakers in Action: Keynote Speaker: Stacy Flynn
Description
Carrie Phillips, Co-Founding Partner, BPCM, in Conversation with Stacy Flynn of Evrnu, keynote speaker for the 15th Annual Sustainable Business and Design Conference.
Stacy Flynn is the CEO and a founding partner of Evrnu, a textile innovations company. An accomplished sustainable systems expert, Flynn is committed to developing innovative fiber technologies that reduce textile waste and preserve natural resources. Under Flynn’s leadership, Evrnu is working to solve the most pressing challenges facing the global textile and apparel industry. In 2019 Evrnu debuted NuCycl, a technology that transforms garment waste into a resource by recovering the raw materials for reuse. Evrnu has been recognized as an organization making notable contributions to the circular economy as well as being named in 2018 Fast Company World Changing Ideas.
Flynn is a TEDx and keynote speaker and a passionate voice of authority advocating for materials reuse for sustainability in textiles. She is an Unreasonable Impact Fellow, along with a cohort of CEOs that are advancing other world-changing ideas.
Prior to founding the company in 2014 with her business partner Christo Stanev, Flynn worked as a global textile specialist for nearly two decades in roles at DuPont, Eddie Bauer, and Target. She holds an MBA in Sustainable Systems from Presidio Graduate Institute and a Bachelor of Science degree in Textile Development and Marketing from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Publisher
Fashion Institute of Technology
Date Created
2021-04-13
Length
29:03
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