Watch this episode to learn how the circular economy 2.0 can promote human rights and dignity in addition to sustainability.

Lis Suarez-Visbal is an Ashoka Canada Fellow, circular economy expert and doctoral researcher at Utrecht University, with nearly two decades leading a social enterprise that promoted women’s empowerment. In this episode, she explains how policymakers and companies in the apparel sector can reduce gender and power asymmetries, while also advancing sustainable development.

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00:25 Introduction
00:49 About Lis Suarez-Visbal
02:56 Lis’ backstory that led to FEM
07:43 Taking the leap into the space of social impact
11:30 How can the circular economy promote equality and inclusion?
15:50 Different forms of change-making: from social entrepreneur to academic researcher
20:06 How can higher education accelerate social innovation?
23:57 What is the circular economy?
30:42 Elevating the human within the circular economy
34:47 The Inner Development Goals
40:06 How has Ashoka Canada impacted Lis’s work?
42:43 Lis Suarez-Visbal’s Purposeful Empathy Story

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Season 14 of Purposeful Empathy is brought to you in collaboration with Ashoka Canada.

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Video edited by David Tsvariani