The 2023 Fordham Girls Summit will function a fashion-industry panel plus periods on environmental analysis and the facility of our private consumption selections.
Annually, the style {industry} creates about 2.1 billion tons of greenhouse gasoline emissions, in response to a 2020 report. That’s about 4% of all emissions globally. However the report additionally discovered that customers “have gotten more and more engaged with sustainability subjects,” and corporations are rethinking how they do enterprise.
At this 12 months’s Fordham Girls’s Summit, to be held Wednesday, Oct. 18, at Fordham’s Lincoln Middle campus in Manhattan, 4 alumni within the style {industry} will share how corporations need to implement modern practices to curb their environmental influence.
Barbara Porco, Ph.D., professor of accounting and head of Fordham’s Accountable Enterprise Middle, will average the panel, which can function the next Fordham graduates:
- Stacey Ferrara, GABELLI ’10, director of strategic initiatives and operations on the Estée Lauder Corporations
- Claudia Rondinelli, FCLC ’91, head of worldwide supplies: leather-based and trims at Ralph Lauren
- Georgeanne Siller, GABELLI ’17, assistant purchaser, girls’s attire at Macy’s Inc.
Past Style: Sustainability Throughout Industries
This 12 months’s girls’s summit—“Past Inexperienced: Investing in a Extra Sustainable World”—is impressed partly by the College’s environmental motion plan and goals to focus on how Fordham girls are serving to to steer cost throughout many industries. Audio system will share concepts for a way everybody can take daring motion in their very own lives to reside extra sustainably.
Jeannette Ferran Astorga, GABELLI ’96, government vp of company affairs, communications, and sustainability at Zoetis Inc., will ship the keynote handle. She’ll share how her values-driven profession began at Fordham and has led her to Zoetis, a worldwide animal well being firm. Along with setting long-range environmental and social influence objectives for the corporate, she began the Zoetis Basis, which goals to advance alternatives for veterinarians and farmers, together with these in sub-Saharan Africa.
The day may even function a dialog on how the meals, wine, and different merchandise we eat have an effect on us, and the way we will grow to be higher customers for our personal profit and the well being of the planet. Different periods embody a glance into environmental analysis occurring at Fordham and a dialogue of the methods Fordham is taking motion to assist our frequent dwelling and encourage change in its communities.
Study extra concerning the Girls’s Summit and register at fordham.edu/womenssummit.
Clockwise from the highest, the session will function: Barbara Porco, professor of accounting and head of Fordham’s Accountable Enterprise Middle because the moderator, and panelists Georgeanne Siller, GABELLI ’17, Claudia Rondinelli, FCLC ’91, and Stacey Ferrara, GABELLI ’10.