Tag: New York City

Episode 188: The Knowledge House – Jerelyn Rodriguez

This week’s episode of The 1 Girl Revolution Podcast features Jerelyn Roriquez, CEO and co-founder of The Knowledge House. The Knowledge House (TKH) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2014 that works to close the gaps in the education­-to-­employment pipeline by leading digital skills training in coding and design for underserved young people. TKH started […]

Episode 185: Good+Foundation – Katherine Snider

This week’s episode of The 1 Girl Revolution features Katherine Snider, CEO of Good+Foundation – a nonprofit that uses a multi-generational approach to address family poverty across the country.  Good+Foundation (formerly Baby Buggy) was founded in 2001 by Jessica Seinfeld shortly after the birth of her first child. Since then, Good+Foundation has become a leading […]

Episode 90: Nancy: Sustainability, the NYC Face Mask Initiative, and a Clothing Revolution

Nancy Rhodes is a shoe designer and she’s the founder of alternew and the NYC Face Mask Initiative. alternew’s tagline is: “clothes are mass produced, bodies are not.” Nancy joins the 1GR podcast to share her own life story, she talks about how she got into fashion and design, the mission of alternew and how this project came to be, the NYC Face Mask Initiative, what alternew is doing to change the fashion world, sustainability in fashion, the clothing revolution she and her team are creating, and more!