Irys Kornbluth

I am a bilingual entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience building companies to solve global problems. At Everywhere, I am focused on textile waste and enabling circularity in fashion to save natural resources and mitigate textile landfill waste and dumping. Previously, I have focused on creating economic access for marginalized indigenous communities in South America through textiles and design. While at Stanford, I completed thesis work on the growth of the Turkish textile industry, and I led university-sponsored fieldwork across Turkey as well as the United Arab Emirates. I grew up in a bicultural household on the San Diego-Tijuana border which has informed my work and contributed to my passion for doing business globally and particularly in Latin America. My peaceful, disciplined, ...