After graduate school, Morris spent time in Haiti as a visual anthropologist, and then traveled throughout the Caribbean and Jamaica as a cultural liaison, a job she, like a true entrepreneur, created for herself. Her role was to work with high-level individuals in the Jamaican government to create ways to teach women how to conduct businesses using their skill sets – assets that can be used as a means of strengthening the economy in developing countries.
Co-founder Amy Barad was driven to Rural Revolution through her passion for urban development and sustainability.Barad, on the other hand, spent a significant amount of time in South Africa studying housing policy in post-Apartheid Johannesburg, at a time when people were moving from marginalized conditions into suburban areas. After seeing the significant role the private sector played in building and sustaining the infrastructure in Johannesburg, she realized how vital private entities can be to rebuilding developing areas.
Although their business model is based on a social mission, both women jewelry on sale agreed that a for-profit structure would be more effective and beneficial to help carry out the message of Rural Revolution, and would allow them more flexibility in what they can accomplish in the future. And with their growing network of sales partners in the U.S., summer travel to visit their international artisan partners, and plans to create a co-op space where women with children can run their businesses, the possibilities for what these women can accomplish are endless.
“We are practicing what we are preaching. We are women who run businesses, have lives, and still need to be caretakers, and we want to provide other women with the resources to help them accomplish it all,” says Barad, further attesting that their success and opportunities have come from the common ground they share with all their partners.
Their business promises to make a global impact, but they want to cartier love bracelets create the foundation here in New Orleans, by keeping their headquarters here and establishing programming in the city. This summer, Rural Revolution will be launching a program in Central City to teach women who are pursuing their GEDs to be entrepreneurs, using jewelry making as a means to do so. The goal will be to identify each woman’s skills, cultivate those skills, and bring community members together to empower women with the entrepreneurial skills and tools needed to be leaders in their communities.
“It’s really important for us to create something that gets the community involved, and creates leaders out of the women in New Orleans,” says Morris, emphasizing that, while their first program will focus on helping women primarily in Central City, the overall outcome is aimed to positively impact our entire community.
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