kant help me

hello there, i'm Nettra (pronounced according to spelling: net + tra = nettra).

i'm a global nomad and digital native currently based in Paris. i was born in California, raised in Phnom Penh and loved my three years in New York City.

i am a recovering political scientist keen on helping diverse stakeholders work together towards sustainable solutions to poverty. learning about the impact of technology, entrepreneurship and creativity on society is what gives me energy.

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I was very happy to meet Elizabeth Kiester again at John McDermott&#8217;s exhibition opening at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery. This founder of Wanderlust is eternally young and fabulous! 

I was very happy to meet Elizabeth Kiester again at John McDermott’s exhibition opening at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery. This founder of Wanderlust is eternally young and fabulous! 

CSR and preserving traditional handicrafts | Corporate Social Responsibility I love how @wanderlustbodge had this in mind from the get-go.

CSR and preserving traditional handicrafts | Corporate Social Responsibility

I love how @wanderlustbodge had this in mind from the get-go.

Have I or have I not driven home the point that I love Elizabeth Kiester?

Either way, this is a beautiful short video in which Designer Elizabeth Kiester explains the Wanderlust for Madewell Collection in Cambodia. 

The label’s description:

This is a short in-store promo [AsiaMediaLab] made in Cambodia for Madewell stores in the US. It features Elizabeth Kiester, the designer and owner of Wanderlust - Cambodia. The video is an intimate look at what exactly hand made means and looks like.

Browse more at wanderlustcambodia.com or check out the Wanderlust for Madewell Collection at madewell.com.

(via cambodgienne)

2010&#160;07-31 My boyfriend in his natural state and me, in my Wanderlust dress, by NYC designer Elizabeth Kiester, handmade by empowered women in Siem Reap, Cambodia. An amazing 2-min video of her new Wanderlust for Madewell Collection here.

2010 07-31

My boyfriend in his natural state and me, in my Wanderlust dress, by NYC designer Elizabeth Kiester, handmade by empowered women in Siem Reap, Cambodia. 

An amazing 2-min video of her new Wanderlust for Madewell Collection here.

So edgy. Love the Cambodian license plate.  Photo taken by the renown John McDermott. Source: I HEART: Found in Wanderlust!

So edgy. Love the Cambodian license plate. 

Photo taken by the renown John McDermott.

Source: I HEART: Found in Wanderlust!

Cambodia&#8217;s Seamstresses Exemplify Global Trends Toward Investment in the Female Market &#8220;I know that de la Paix has been actively involved in helping train women in sewing for quite some time, as well as being involved in social programs throughout Cambodia,&#8221; Elizabeth Kiester, who relocated to Cambodia in 2008 after a successful career as Creative Director at LeSportsac and a Senior Editor at Jane magazine tells Fast Company. She set up her socially conscious, summery, clothing line in Siam Reap after moving there. She partners with marginalized female seamstresses and just launched a collection for J. Crew. &#8220;I think what they&#8217;re doing is amazing, and I welcome the efforts&#8212;I would love to utilize some of their seamstresses some day!&#8221; Little work opportunities exist for women in Cambodia, one of the world&#8217;s least developed countries, and they&#8217;re often found working on construction sites. &#8220;Sewing and crafting is indigenous to Cambodia, but also sewing offers women, in a country where perhaps they are not yet &#8216;equal,&#8217; a chance to own and run their own businesses, which otherwise they may not have the opportunity,&#8221; Kiester says. The partnership between MasterCard and Hotel de la Paix may sound like straight-up corporate social responsibility, the same stuff you&#8217;ve heard before, but actually, it&#8217;s rare to find a set of players and causes that fit so well together. The financial incentive is gravy. Source: Fast Company

Cambodia’s Seamstresses Exemplify Global Trends Toward Investment in the Female Market

“I know that de la Paix has been actively involved in helping train women in sewing for quite some time, as well as being involved in social programs throughout Cambodia,” Elizabeth Kiester, who relocated to Cambodia in 2008 after a successful career as Creative Director at LeSportsac and a Senior Editor at Jane magazine tells Fast Company. She set up her socially conscious, summery, clothing line in Siam Reap after moving there. She partners with marginalized female seamstresses and just launched a collection for J. Crew. “I think what they’re doing is amazing, and I welcome the efforts—I would love to utilize some of their seamstresses some day!”

Little work opportunities exist for women in Cambodia, one of the world’s least developed countries, and they’re often found working on construction sites. “Sewing and crafting is indigenous to Cambodia, but also sewing offers women, in a country where perhaps they are not yet ‘equal,’ a chance to own and run their own businesses, which otherwise they may not have the opportunity,” Kiester says.

The partnership between MasterCard and Hotel de la Paix may sound like straight-up corporate social responsibility, the same stuff you’ve heard before, but actually, it’s rare to find a set of players and causes that fit so well together. The financial incentive is gravy.

Source: Fast Company

Elizabeth Kiester’s Wanderlust is proving to be a profitable and empowering social enterprise in Cambodia

With Biggies like MasterCard and for that matter, even Goldman Sachs  identifying the ‘possibilities’ of South Asia, especially Cambodia, Thailand and India, the region is poised to emerge as a surprise example in women empowerment, with a little help from Wanderlust.

More love for Elizabeth Kiester here.

Wanderlust Collection for Madewell

I’ve raved so much about this woman, Elizabeth Kiester, a fashion genius, socially-minded entrepreneur who has a huge spot in her heart for Cambodia. 

Now she has a collection made especially for and available at Madewell. If you have 1-2 minutes, watch the video, it’s cool.

Wanderlust Cambodia by Elizabeth Kiester comes to NY - Pop Up Shop opens in Williamsburg May 7-16 (11 am - 8pm)!!!

Where: 439 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211. One block from Metropolitan G + Lorimer L subway stops; 5 mins from Bedford Ave L Stop; short walk to J, M, Z.

Info? Questions? Directions? ask andrew@wanderlustcambodia.com

Elizabeth Kiester. This lady is so amazing. You may have heard of high energy people who love life, love people, love travelling, seeing the world, sharing, creating… Well, Elizabeth Kiester, I’ve met her in Siem Reap, Cambodia — she’s the real deal. She embodies joie de vivre. After making it big in New York with Abercrombie & Fitch, Lesportsac, YM, Mademoiselle… (the list goes on) she visits Cambodia, falls in love, gets up and and brings all her her talent and creativity with her as she MOVES to Siem Reap (the northwest of Cambodia). She, judging by her blog and the press, is a perfect addition to the burgeoning growth of artists and creative people in Siem Reap (I’m definitely going to move their at some point). She opens a shop there called Wanderlust and employs young women in a way that nurtures them and their family. The women are paid more than they would earn at generic garment factories, can work from home and take care of their parents and children at the same time.

And did I mention her clothes are so kawaii?? Check out her e-store at Wanderlust Cambodia if you can’t make it all the way to Cambodia — they ship anywhere around the world. (No, I was not paid to write this — read about her, try to meet her — you’ll see for yourself how infectious her passion for life is!)

Check out her story in the links below (photos taken from the blogs below):