Our Team

We are a committed team of individuals who have spent decades supporting artisan entrepreneurs in developing countries. Together, we bridge the worlds of international development, social enterprise, importing and marketing, and promoting women’s entrepreneurship. We are passionate about our mission, and grounded in decades of relevant experience.

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  Amber Chand is the founder of the Women’s Peace Collection, a social enterprise that supports women’s micro-enterprises primarily in regions of conflict and post-conflict, including Afghanistan, Palestine, Rwanda and Sudan. The company sells high quality gifts created by talented craftswomen rebuilding their lives in the shadows of war, genocide, civil strife and crippling poverty. Recently, she launched The 100 Women: 100 Hopes Campaign to support women who are struggling in a Western Darfur refugee camp to earn a dignified livelihood.

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  Siiri Morley has worked on poverty reduction and sustainable economic development projects in Afghanistan, Croatia, Ecuador and Kenya, and was a business capacity development advisor with the U.S. Peace Corps in Lesotho. She received her MBA from the Heller School of Social Policy & Management at Brandeis University in December 2009, and has consulted on social impact measurement to design firm IDEO, and interned at Preserve, an eco-friendly home products company that promotes socially responsible business practices.

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  Ted Barber has spent the past eight years working on poverty alleviation projects funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, Inter-American Development Bank, and other agencies throughout Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. His focus is building successful enterprises through sustainable access to global markets. For more than a decade before that, he co-founded and managed a successful import and trade consulting company that focused on handcrafted products made in emerging markets.