Michelle Gabriel
Michelle Gabriel is a social impact + sustainability strategist, educator, and researcher investigating how value perceptions are shaped and built through cultural and economic systems and how understanding those mechanisms for defining value might be leveraged to drive more equitable dynamics across societies.
Michelle currently serves as Director of Career Services + Strategic Partnerships and as Adjunct Professor of Sustainable Fashion Strategy at Glasgow Caledonian New York College, where she brings more than 15 years of industry experience in social business strategy, design, branding, product development, supply chain, and operations for fashion and consumer product brands.
Contact: Michelle.Gabriel@gcu.ac.uk
Links: Personal Website
Education
- PhD candidate in Social Policy, Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Publications
- “Fashion and Politics,” Cumulus Conference, College for Creative Studies, November 2022
- “Desire, Power, and Capitalism: An Exploration of Overconsumption in the Global Fashion Industry,” Responsible Fashion: Can Fashion Save the World?, Routledge, Expected late 2023
- “Fashion, Sustainability, and the Free Market,” Pioneering New Perspectives in the Fashion Industry: Disruption, Diversity and Sustainable Innovation, Edited by Elaine L Ritch, Julie McColl, and Catherine Canning, Emerald Insights, Expected early 2023
- “The Economics of Exclusion: Why Inclusion Doesn’t Fit Fashion’s Business Model,” Pioneering New Perspectives in the Fashion Industry: Disruption, Diversity and Sustainable Innovation, Edited by Elaine L Ritch, Julie McColl, and Catherine Canning, Emerald Insights, Expected early 2023
- "Fashion Response-ability Transnational Dialogues and Local Impact: Video Collage and Co-Critique: Gen-Z Audience as the New Social & Sustainable Pioneers", Living Labs, Università Iuav di Venezia, December 2021
- “Desire, Power, and Capitalism: A Theoretical Exploration of Overconsumption in the Global Fashion Industry,” Responsible Fashion Series Conference, University of Antwerp, October 2021
