I have been reading the book "Global Girlfriends" by Stacey Edgar, the founder of the website Global Girlfriend, and have been totally inspired. I highly recommend it! I could not have started reading this book at a better time - while constantly hearing about the over 800 dead because of a factory collapse in Bangladesh to unfairly treated workers, and my recent trip of the "Tour de Grad Schools", I have really been thinking about what I want to accomplish in life, and how to do it.

Paper Crane Tie Shoulder top. Textile Design by Shifra Whiteman. Created by Mata Traders. Sold on Global Girlfriend.

Feeling inspired, I decided to comb through the Global Girlfriend site and got to a page where I recognized a custom order that Mata Traders did for Global Girlfriend - the Paper Crane Tie Shoulder Top! I feel honored to have somehow made it onto the Global Girlfriend site and hope to continue my work in textile design for fair trade!!!