Interview with Eve Blossom, Founder of Lulan.com [Part 2 of 3]

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This is Part II of a 3-Part Series featuring social entrepreneur Eve Blossom, Founder of Lulan.com. In this video interview, Eve encourages aspiring social entrepreneurs to follow her example, advising interested entrepreneurs to “copy my model, join me, create a business” – as a means to prevent human trafficking. Be sure to check out Part I as well, in which Eve tells viewers about Lulan.com and the artisans with whom she works in southeast Asia.

The Full Transcript

Katrina: Hi everyone, this is Katrina of envisionGood. This is Part II of a three-part series with social entrepreneur, Eve Blossom. Eve is a friend of mine and she’s a designer, and a business woman. And she’s leveraging business and design to help prevent human trafficking. Here we are with Eve of Lulan Artisans.

[Excerpt from Part I]

Eve:

I witnessed first-hand human trafficking – the sale of a young, little girl. That was when I was living in Asia. And it was at that moment that I realized that these artisan groups that I wanted to work with are actually at-risk of falling into human trafficking. And when I did the research of human trafficking, I realized that economic option is the key.

Part II:

Katrina:

What insights can you share with aspiring social entrepreneurs?

Eve: I have a lot to say to young social entrepreneurs who … If they are interested in this issue, contact me. Copy my model. The more of us, the more we are doing this work, the better. My objective is for people to look at Lulan and say, “wow this can be done” and “this can scale” and “we can make a huge impact and we can make a difference”. And if there are thousands of Lulan type of companies, then we’re going to be successful.

And what I always say to people is, so I’m using textiles and design, but you can use jewelry, you can use lighting, you can use furniture, you can use metal, you can use glass, you can use anything, pottery, I mean basketry. You can use anything. There are millions and millions of artisans around the world. So my message is: Come join. Come do.”

Katrina:Thank you so much, Eve.

Eve:Thank you so much. I really appreciate the opportunity to tell the story.