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  • Will You Make Change This Holiday Season With Fair-Trade Retailers?
    by Carmen K. Iezzi · Dec 09, 2009 · HUMAN TRAFFICKING

    This is a guest-post by Carmen K. Iezzi, Executive Director at Fair Trade Federation.

    Right now, in your community and in cities and towns across North America, shops are clamoring for your attention. Particularly as the holiday shopping season draws nearer, they will do and say and promise all that they can to get it.

    Some offer nameless, faceless goods whose impacts on you, their producers, and the planet are hardly discussed. Others, Fair Trade Retailers, tell the stories behind the products we enjoy and work to maximize the return to your community and communities around the globe.

    Amid all of the marketing, spin, and hype, consumers from San Francisco, CA to New London, CT have the opportunity to choose what kind of change they get at the register. What will we do with all that power?

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Carmen K. Iezzi

Carmen K. Iezzi has served as the Executive Director of the Fair Trade Federation since October 2006. Among her responsibilities, Ms. Iezzi manages the strategic, administrative, and programmatic aspects of Federation. Previously, she oversaw the education and outreach programs for the Atlantic Council of the United States and directed the alumni relations program for the School of International Service (SIS) at American University (AU). Graduating Phi Beta Kappa from SIS, Ms. Iezzi stayed at AU to complete her master's degree in International Politics. She received their 2008 Rising Star Alumni Award. Presently, Ms. Iezzi writes and conducts research on a freelance basis, acts as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Ten Thousand Villages of Alexandria, VA, is a director for the Abyssinian Fund, and chairs the Millennium Development Goals Task Force for the UN Association of the National Capital Area. She lives in Washington DC.

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