Michelle Blair Gabriel is an educator, researcher, social impact and fashion sustainability strategist who speaks widely about the systems, strategies, policies and laws needed to establish widespread sustainable practices in the fashion industry. Her research investigating how value perceptions in the fashion system are shaped and built through cultural and economic systems aims to drive more equitable dynamics across societies.
Michelle is a PhD candidate at the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University in Glasgow, Scotland. She currently serves as the Graduate Program Director for Sustainable Fashion at Glasgow Caledonian New York College, where she brings her research and more than 15 years of industry experience in social business strategy, design, branding, product development, supply chain, and operations for fashion and consumer product brands.
