Series
Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Episode Number
#50
Episode
Starting A Fashion Company in Liberia; Investing With Impact
Producing Organization
Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Contributing Organization
Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller (San Francisco, California)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip-6df95511d17
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Description
Episode Description
Archel Bernard moved from Atlanta, Georgia to Monrovia, Liberia to start a fashion company that employs women who survived Ebola, are rape survivors or deaf. Her company is called The Bombchel Factory, and to top it all off, the product is, as she puts it, "dope." And, more entrepreneurs are starting businesses with a social purpose--addressing poverty or mitigating climate change. A growing number of investors are supporting this shift in thinking--looking not just at returns but at impact--and putting their money on companies that align with their values. I talk with Lindsay Smalling and Rosa Lee Harden, organizers of SOCAP--The Social Capital Markets Network conference.
Broadcast Date
2016-08-29
Asset type
Episode
Genres
Talk Show
Topics
Business
Economics
Women
Subjects
Fashion; Economics
Media type
Sound
Duration
00:54:10:37
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Credits
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Guest: Smalling, Lindsay
Guest: Harden, Rosa Lee
Guest: Bernard, Archel
Host: Schiller, Lauren
Producing Organization: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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Citations
Chicago: “Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller; #50; Starting A Fashion Company in Liberia; Investing With Impact,” 2016-08-29, Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed September 23, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-6df95511d17.
MLA: “Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller; #50; Starting A Fashion Company in Liberia; Investing With Impact.” 2016-08-29. Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. September 23, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-6df95511d17>.
APA: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller; #50; Starting A Fashion Company in Liberia; Investing With Impact. Boston, MA: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-6df95511d17