Founder

Eve Blossom’s twenty years’ experience in early-stage technology firms, International business, nonprofit and social ventures led her to founding Lulan Artisans. After earning her master’s degree in Architecture from Tulane University, she practiced at Gensler in Los Angeles. She then spent two years in Vietnam restoring French villas for such clients as Price Waterhouse and Chase Manhattan, and training Vietnamese architects in technology. After returning to the US, Blossom was a VP of business development with Gravity, Inc, and then founded the San Francisco-based Envolved Inc./Foundation, an Internet portal for nonprofit groups.

But it was during Blossom’s time in Vietnam that she found the roots of her calling. Traveling throughout Southeast Asia, she became passionate about local hand-woven textiles. She recognized that the superb talents of the master weavers combined with a social venture model could create a strong economic engine to fuel systemic social change. A Frequent lecturer worldwide on sustainable integrated design and innovative business methodologies, she has also had the opportunity to speak at TED and is an Aspen Institute Liberty Fellow.

Eve Blossom founded Lulan Artisans, which designs, produces and markets sustainable textiles. She works in partnership with more than 650 weavers, dyers, spinners and finishers in Southeast Asia. Lulan Artisans integrates design with systemic social change working closely with artisans to create economic stability for their communities, to open new markets and to prevent human trafficking.