Fair@Square 2011
Co-ordinators
Leeyong Soo
Fair Fashion Co-ordinator
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Leeyong Soo
Leeyong Soo was born in Melbourne and lived there until 1998, when she decided
to test her university-level Japanese on a working holiday in Tokyo. After a
year working at a free English magazine for foreigners she landed a job at Japanese
Vogue as assistant to the fashion director. During her eight years at Japanese
Vogue, Leeyong was in charge of a variety of regular columns and reported on
fashion weeks around the world, while also launching her label of dresses handmade
from vintage kimono and obi, Fourth Daughter. Since returning to Melbourne, Leeyong
has continued to work in print media, as well as advocating for sustainable fashion
through participation in various projects such as Fair Trade fashion shows, workshops
at sustainability festivals and writing for Peppermint magazine. She blogs regularly
about her DIY fashion projects and op shop discoveries at http://stylewilderness.blogspot.com/
Olivia de Castres
Fair Talk Co-ordinator
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Olivia de Castres
After completing a Duel Diploma of Tourism; Event Management and Marketing, Olivia
worked & volunteered
in various events roles while still managing to fit in numerus trips around South
East Asia and India. With her love of culture, backpacking off the beaten track
and passion to help the poverty she saw from these trips lead her to set off
on a year’s adventure around the world where she was mainly based in Nepal and
India. Here she spent time volunteering in a Nepalese Orphanage and worked teaching
English to disadvantaged Indian teenagers. Olivia’s strong passion for environmental
issues grew when she spent her last few months in the south of India volunteering
on an organic farm and then in a Vegan Eco Village working on their reforestation
project. Now back in Australia she is again working in an events focussed role
and is very excited about having the opportunity to work with the Moral Fairground
team to promote Fair Trade and helps make the Fair@Square festival be the best
it can.
Sarah Taylor
Fair Play Co-ordinator
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Sarah Taylor
Sarah is developing White Circles- a small fair trade/ethical wholesale business
that works directly with Nepali women; promoting independence, local education
and womens entrepreneurship. She spends some time in Nepal developing village
relationships and product designs, and some time at home in Australia, where
her role is marketing, sales and fair trade networking. Sarah is most excited
by the evidence that fair trade does work and is excited to learn more about
why and how it can improve.
Lily Lee
Volunteer Co-ordinator
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Lily Lee
Lily is pursuing her masters in finance in the University
of Melbourne. After arriving here last year, she was highly involved
with various activities
and social communities such as the Fair Trade Fortnight, the Student
Appeal and the Way Community etc. Her interest in Fair Trade originated
from the "Fair Trade Fortnight" this year. Being deeply inspired by the spirit of Fair Trade, coupled with her
great passion, Lily is continuing her involvement with the Fair
Trade by working as a volunteer coordinator with the Moral Fairground
team.
She is very excited about this year’s Fair Trade + Ethical Festival
and is looking forward to contribute as many creative ideas as she
can to make it more successful.
Sarah Smethurst
Fair Indulgence Co-ordinator
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Sarah Smethurst
Sarah is currently completing her degree in International studies, French and
Arabic. She has travelled extensively over the past 5 years, including
teaching English in China, working and studying in France, and visiting
Europe and North Africa. After volunteering in numerous roles over the
past year and half, Sarah is combining her passions for food and development
this year in her role with Moral Fairground. Growing up on a dairy farm
in West Gippsland, Sarah has been a vegetarian for more than 6 years
and has a strong interest in ethical eating and food choices. She is
really looking forward to sharing her excitement and ideas about the
ways we can transform lives through our diet and lifestyle choices!
Kirstie Ly
PR/Marketing Co-ordinator
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Kirstie Ly
Kirstie is currently studying Psychology and Management/Marketing at Monash University.
Endeavouring to constantly put her studies into practice, she volunteers
as a marketing advisor for East Timorese Women Australia (ETWA). ETWA
is a not-for-profit organisation that supports the socio-economic well
being, self sustainability, and cultural empowerment of East Timorese
women through community based programs, particularly in the handcrafts
industry. Through this initiative and traveling around South East Asia,
Kirstie has learned to appreciate the importance of fair trade and ethical
businesses in society. She is looking forward to working closely with
Moral Fairground to help raise awareness, inspire and show individuals
how fair trade and ethical business can make a positive difference.
Kay Lee
Fair Entertainment Co-ordinator
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Kay Lee
Kay graduated from a BA of Communications /Marketing
and has worked for multiple
not-for-profit organisations in the past seven years. Kay has
worked in various media, advertising and marketing capacities and has
a
fondness for the music and entertainment industries. Kay has grown
up very aware of the economic inequality between the wealthy and the
poor. While travelling through parts of Asia,
she witnessed
the social divide between the rich and the poor. Kay has a strong
passion in closing this divide by addressing the injustices of
conventional trade. As Fair Entertainment Co-ordinator, Kay hopes
to use music and entertainment in bringing people together to realise
a cause worth
fighting for.
Fair Living
Eco
Innovators
Eco Innovators is a leading provider of environmental consultancy services,
assisting business in understanding and creating more socially and
environmentally sustainable products. They specialise in the use of
life cycle assessment (LCA) and best practice eco-design approaches
in achieving these outcomes. Eco Innovators also operates as a creative
change agency developing and running projects that inspire and engage
people with sustainability. To this end, they recently converted an
old newsstand pillar in Melbourne’s CBD into a showcase of locally
made, environmentally designed products and developed the award winning
'The Secret Life of Things' animation project which explores the hidden
environmental impacts of everyday things. These community-centred
projects are fundamental to Eco Innovators mission to integrate sustainability
as a core foundation of all product development.
Leyla Acaroglu
Leyla Acaroglu is the Director of award winning Melbourne
based LCA and ecodesign consultancy Eco Innovators. She has worked across
the design and manufacturing sectors and has developed award winning
sustainability education projects, as well as launched many successful
communication and engagement projects around design for sustainability.
Leyla’s work is focused on finding innovative methods of engaging and
facilitating uptake of sustainability across the design production and
consumption sectors and was voted one of Melbourne’s Top 100 people
of influence in 2010 and is a judge on the ABC TV's The New Inventors
program.


