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Marie Arlet, Jessie Gould & Ethan Frisch

Teaches at Be Social Change

​Marie Arlet
Marie is co-founder and the COO at Shea Brand, a Brooklyn-based self care brand. Marie started her career in NYC working for M Missoni before moving to Haute Hippie and then eventually Macy’s where she was designed for $100MM+ brand Style and Co. With Shea Brand, she now manages an expansive product-to-distribution pipeline that now includes retailers such as Free People, Urban Outfitters, Credo and The Paper Source, alongside with hundreds of other specialty boutiques throughout the country.

Jessie Gould
Jessie Gould is passionate about solving our country’s health epidemic with big changes to our diet. In 2015, Jessie founded Ox Verte, a plant-forward food company currently working to reinvent office lunch and breakfast.

Before founding Ox, Jessie spent 3 years at Organic Avenue as VP of Operations and VP of Brand & Marketing after a 7 year career in investment banking and private equity. She received an MBA from Wharton and a BA in Economics and Mechanical Engineering from Yale University.

Ethan Frisch
Ethan Frisch is a chef, entrepreneur, activist and native New Yorker. As the founder of Burlap & Barrel, he is building new, direct supply chains for unique & beautiful spices from small farms around the world, connecting smallholder farmers with international markets. He was also the co-founder and Executive Chef of the activist ice cream cart Guerrilla Ice Cream and the Pastry Chef at Allen & Delancey, as well as a cook at several other highly regarded restaurants including Danny Meyer’s Tabla. As a humanitarian aid worker, he worked with NGOs including the Aga Khan Foundation in Afghanistan, Doctors Without Borders on the Syrian/Jordanian border and Marie Stopes in Sierra Leone.

He has been an Adjunct Lecturer at the City College of New York and an instructor with the Experiment in International Living’s Leadership Institute. He is honored to serve as Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Bond Street Theatre, which uses theater to teach techniques of resilience around the world, on the Chef’s Council of Emma’s Torch, a culinary job skills organization for refugees, on the Advisory Board of the student-led racial literacy organization CHOOSE, an Associate Producer with Fragments Theater, a youth theater company in Palestine, and a member of the Organizing Committee of the Queens International Night Market. He is the Co-Host of the show Why Food? on Heritage Radio Network, and has been a columnist at Serious Eats and a contributor to the academic journal Peace & Conflict Review.

He holds a dual Bachelors Degrees from the City University of New York and a Masters Degree from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.

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