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Women Of Color FashTech Brunch
Dec 
13th
 at 
7:00pm

12:00pm

Lunch Break

sponsored by wawa

Ellen Nelson

CEO & co-founder

Ellen Nelson is CEO and co-founder of Stone, a leading news and media company for young people.  From global affairs and politics to technology and science to sports and music, Stone offers insightful stories and compelling perspectives on the issues that define a generation.

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Ellen Nelson

CEO & co-founder

Ellen Nelson is CEO and co-founder of Stone, a leading news and media company for young people.  From global affairs and politics to technology and science to sports and music, Stone offers insightful stories and compelling perspectives on the issues that define a generation.

The WOC FashTech Brunch wishes to celebrate and create an intimate space for women of color in the fashion tech industry. This event will facilitate open and transparent dialogue, create networking opportunities and form lasting connections.

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Luxor + Finch Consulting, G.I.F.T and Geek of Chic Presents:

Women Of Color FashTech Brunch
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December 
13th
 at 
7:00pm

A brunch for Women of color in the FASHTECH INDUSTRY

The WOC FashTech Brunch wishes to celebrate and create an intimate space for women of color in the fashion tech industry. This event will facilitate open and transparent dialogue, create networking opportunities and form lasting connections.



"When Women Support Women Incredible Things Happen"


Speakers

Hellyn Teng

co-founder & Creative dIRECTOR OF WEARABLE MEDIA/ WEB MANAGER AT THE BARD GRADUATE CENTER

Hellyn Teng is a Co-founder and Creative Director of Wearable Media, a fashion tech studio based in NYC, creating a world of interactive smart apparels powered by design and technology. Her focus is in utilizing computational fashion technology, physical computing and creative coding as mediums for re-imagining our relationship with textiles and garment design as an interactive media.

Gina Bibby

Partner at brutzkus gubner/

fashion tech attorney/

sponsor

 

Gina Bibby is a self-professed "technology and fashion evangelist." She practiced complex intellectual property litigation and intellectual property procurement for nearly 14 years in the Silicon Valley offices of various AmLaw 50 and AmLaw 100 law firms. Gina has extensive trial expertise and is also a registered patent attorney and has extensive patent litigation and patent procurement expertise. In 2016, Gina left big law to pursue her dream of forming a specialized fashion-technology legal practice. Recently, she joined the Brutzkus Gubner Rozansky Seror Weber law firm as a partner and formed Brutzkus Gubner’s fashion technology legal practice group.

Kim Jenkins

fashion and culture scholar/ lecturer/

independent researcher and consultant

Kim Jenkins specializes in the sociocultural and historical influences behind why we wear what we wear, specifically addressing how politics, psychology, race and gender shapes the way we ‘fashion’ our identity. Based in New York, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute and Part-time Lecturer at Parsons School of Design,where she developed the course “Fashion and Race."

Lisa Morales-Hellebo

co-founder OF THE wORLDWIDE SUPPLY CHAIN FEDERATION/ 

FOUNDER OF REFASHIOND

Lisa Morales-Hellebo is an entrepreneur, seasoned product strategist, and creative director with a career that spans 20+ years helping start-ups to F500s maximize conversions. She has been featured in numerous publications and media outlets, ranging from FashInvest, Women 2.0, WWD, and Refinery 29 to Fast Company, Crain’s, Huffington Post, El Nuevo Dia, & ABC 7 Tiempo, to name a few.

SPECIAL GUEST: MISA HYLTON

Misa Hylton is "hip-hop fashion's renaissance woman." and founder of Misa Hylton Fashion Academy. Misa is the genius behind some of the most iconic trend-setting fashion moments for artists such as Lil Kim, Mary J Blige, Missy Elliot, Sean Combs, Kimora Lee to name a few with her latest custom MCM creation for Beyonce for the APES**T music video. 

 

Over the last two decades, Misa’s endeavors in styling, design, retail, education, and philanthropy have "solidified her as a bona fide cultural icon. " 

 

 

The venue

This event is invite only. Location will be sent in private email upon RSVP. 

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hosts

Jessica Couch

founder, luxor + Finch consulting


Ellie Zambrano 

FoUNDER, PIXELNERD & gEEK OF CHIC


Brittany Hicks

planning and operations at amazon/

founder of g.i.f.t (girls in fashion tech)


Media Inquiries

Media is permitted to attend this event and must RSVP.


For inquiries and RSVP, please e-mail Jessica Couch, jcouch@luxorandfinch.com.


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