In our latest installment of We Can Do This! Sally Greenberg, CEO of National Consumers League, sits down with Rebecca Ballard to discuss the fashion and garment industry.

Sally and Rebecca, an experienced and leading authority on sustainable fashion and founder of the consulting firm Ballard Advisory, discuss the incredible linkage connecting the garment industry’s history with the work of NCL specifically with respect to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the early 1900s, women’s and workers’ rights movements in the U.S., and child labor exploitation.

Rebecca, a former Labor and Employment Attorney with the U.S. Department of Commerce and owner of the sustainable fashion line Maven Women, recently penned a guest blog for NCL titled “The FABRIC Act will address garment industry workplace concerns.”

Get to know the Chair of the Regenerative Agriculture and Textiles Summit, Rebecca Ballard, as we explore the impact partnerships between the private, public and social sectors can have on accelerating the transition and how Rebecca’s own work incorporates cross-sector collaboration. Rebecca shares some of the common pitfalls businesses face when building their sustainability strategies and discusses her insights into the challenges and opportunities with supply chain traceability.