Joy Keys finds out What is Fair Trade?

Find out What is Fair Trade?

Date: Saturday April 17, 2010

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 11:30am EST

Go To: www.blogtalkradio.com/joykeys and listen to the show from your computer.

Call: 646-929-0368 to listen and ask questions from your phone.

Special Guest: Carmen K. Iezzi-Executive Director, Fair Trade Federation.. Among her responsibilities, Carmen manages the strategic, administrative, and programmatic aspects of Federation. Graduating Phi Beta Kappa from School of International Service at American University, Carmen stayed to complete her master's degree with a focus on the impact of regional integration on good governance. Presently, she acts as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Ten Thousand Villages of Alexandria, is a director for the Abyssinian Fund, chairs the Millennium Development Goals Task Force for the UN Association of the National Capital Area, and served on the editorial board of the Journal of Fair Trade Studies. http://www.fairtraderesource.org/

Special Guest: Executive Director - Jeff Goldman joined FTRN in January 2009. He has fortunately received directions, cultural insights, and genuine kindness from countless locals while working & backpacking in 54 countries across six continents. Just prior to joining FTRN, he served as Executive Director of Mango Tree, a socially responsible business designing & producing low-literacy communication materials in Uganda. He was first introduced to Fair Trade while working as a Membership & Development Coordinator at Co-op America (now Green America). He earned an M.S. in Energy and Environmental Policy from MIT, and a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.
http://www.fairtradefederation.org/

Special Co-host: Meg Widholm is a Fair Trade enthusiast with a commitment to the abolition of sweatshops and equal pay for equal work. She has done volunteer work for 10,000 Villages, a non-profit Fair Trade retail store with locations in the United States and Canada. She is currently employed in IT and working in parallel to open a Locally-Produced and Fair Trade retail shop in the Philadelphia area.