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    DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION AT PRADA GROUP

    Diversity, an essential element of social sustainability, is a fundamental value for the Prada Group. The appreciation of everyone’s unique qualities is our foundation for creating an inclusive work environment that allows people to reach their full potential. Today, in an increasingly integrated and globalised society, one of our primary objectives is to understand and support everyone at Prada Group as they work to achieve their goals and aspirations.

    Our global presence is made up of a multitude of cultures, nationalities, and ethnicities, with employees from over 104 different countries. 

    Our focus on equal opportunities is also reflected in our Compensation & Benefits system.

    MALIKA SAVELL
    Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, Prada Group, The Americas
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    MALIKA SAVELL

    Before joining the Prada Group, Malika was the Director of Cultural Diversity, Partnerships & Engagement at Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH). She has been recognized for creating diversity, brand equity, and inclusion initiatives that help drive engagement and experiences for internal and external stakeholders, including  employees, consumers, and communities.

    In 2018, she was named among Event Marketers’ 35 Under 35, a list of the top 35 experiential marketers in the U.S. under the age of 35. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies from Hunter College in New York and obtained her certification in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University.

    CHIEF DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION OFFICER

    In October 2020, the Prada Group announced the appointment of Malika Savell as Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer for Prada North America. Malika is responsible for developing policies, strategies, and programmes to help ensure that diverse perspectives and experiences are represented at all levels of Prada. With her extensive experience leading diversity initiatives at global luxury companies, Malika works closely with the Group’s global leadership to strengthen an inclusive culture and ensure equitable advancement opportunities for our employees. She also works closely with Prada Group’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council and the Group’s creative and design teams to keep everyone informed of global movements and issues around race, culture, and politics.

    “For over a century, Prada’s visionary work has shaped the course of the fashion industry and continues to connect individuals and creatives worldwide through a shared appreciation of innovation, style, and quality. I’m honoured to be part of a strong leadership team that is committed to our mission to increase representation and enhance our company’s culture to ensure that the Prada Group continues to champion diversity as a global industry leader”.

    Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, Prada Group, The Americas

    DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION ADVISORY COUNCIL

    In February 2019, the Prada Group established its Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council, a group of leading minds in art, fashion, cultural institutions, academia, and activism, chaired by artist, social innovator, and Founder of Rebuild Foundation Theaster Gates and award-winning writer, director, and producer Ava DuVernay, who held the role until April 1st, 2022.

    Other Council members include Fashion Institute of Technology President Joyce F. Brown, Humanitarian and Chief of Strategic Partnerships at UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, Mariarosa Cutillo, and Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, Sarah Lewis.

    Prada’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council, as a consultative, fully independent body, cultivates key initiatives and promotes cultural discussions while elevating people of colour within the company, the fashion industry and beyond.

    CHAIRMAN

    Theaster Gates
    Artist, social innovator and Founder of Rebuild Foundation
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    Theaster Gates

    Theaster Gates is a living artist originally from Chicago. Working primarily as a sculptor and musician, Gates’ work contends with the notion of Black space as a formal exercise. Known for his recirculation of art-world capital, Gates upturns art values, land values, and human values. In 2010, Gates established the Rebuild Foundation to galvanize communities through neighbourhood regeneration and the development of educational and arts programming. Many of the foundation’s initiatives are centered around the revitalization of Chicago’s South Side, creating hubs and archives for Black culture, which serve as catalysts for discussions on race, equality, space, and history. Gates is a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Arts and the Harris School of Public Policy, and is Distinguished Visiting Artist and Director of Artist Initiatives at the Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College. His work has been exhibited internationally, and he is the recipient of numerous distinctions including the Artes Mundi 6 Prize (2015), the Légion d’Honneur (2017), the Nasher Prize for Sculpture (2018), and the Urban Land Institute, J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development (2018).

    OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS

    Joyce F. Brown
    President of Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)
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    Joyce F. Brown

    Dr. Joyce F. Brown, president of Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) since 1998, is a highly  regarded educator and academic administrator with over 40 years of experience in public higher education.  Sustained strategic planning has been a hallmark of her leadership at FIT which has led to enhanced faculty ranks, increased technology, renovated facilities,  and an expanded curriculum with innovative new programs.  She has invigorated the college’s culture with ground-breaking initiatives in diversity and sustainability.  Prior to FIT,  Dr. Brown held a number of senior administrative posts at the City University of New York (CUNY) including acting president of Bernard Baruch College and vice chancellor of the university.  She was a professor of counseling psychology at the Graduate School and University Center at CUNY and is now professor emerita.  She also served as deputy mayor for public and community affairs during the David Dinkins administration. Dr. Brown serves as a director of the Ralph Lauren Corporation, the New York Economic Club and the New York Culinary Institute. She earned her BA from Marymount College and her MA and PhD from New York University.  She also received a certificate from the Harvard Institute for Educational Management.

    MARIAROSA CUTILLO
    Chief of the Strategic Partnerships Branch, within the Division of Communications and Strategic Partnerships of UNFPA
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    Mariarosa Cutillo

    Mariarosa Cutillo is Chief of the Strategic Partnerships Branch, within the Division of Communications and Strategic Partnerships of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
    Mariarosa brings with her more than 20 years of professional experience, working for the private sector. Before joining UNFPA, she was the Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Benetton Group, as well as President and CEO of Benetton’s UNHATE Foundation. She has served as director of Valore Sociale per l’Impresa Responsabile (a multi stakeholder corporate social responsibility organization). On issues relating to corporate sustainability, she has served as a legal expert for various Institutions. She has extensively worked for non-governmental organizations including Mani Tese and the Global March against Child Labour. Mariarosa was also a professor in International Law Cases in the Faculty of Law of the University of Milan-Bicocca and senior lecturer at the Catholic University of Milan, Faculties of Law and Political and Social Sciences. Mariarosa obtained a degree in Advanced International Law from the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Milan. She has post-graduate specializations in Human Rights and business administration, and is author of numerous scientific and wider dissemination publications on business and human rights, labor rights as well as on sustainable development issues.

    Sarah Lewis
    Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies at Harvard University
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    Sarah Lewis

    Sarah Lewis is an Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Lewis’s research interests focus on representations of race in contemporary art and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America culture and across the Black Atlantic world. She is the author of The Caucasian War and the Los Angeles Times bestseller, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery (2014). Lewis served as guest editor of the “Vision & Justice” issue of Aperture, which received the 2017 Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research from the International Center of Photography, and her scholarship has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Milton Fund, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, she held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Modern, London. She currently serves on the board of Creative Time and the Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts and has served on the board of The Brearley School and The CUNY Graduate Center.

    “We are extremely proud of these programmes, which reflect Prada Group’s commitment to cultivating, recruiting and retaining diverse talent and to creating an inclusive culture. These initiatives mark real progress, and we look forward to building on this momentum to create more opportunities that increase diversity and representation both within Prada and in the fashion industry today and in the future”.  

    Lorenzo Bertelli, Prada Group Marketing Director & Head of Corporate Social Responsibility

    Press releases
    Prada Group & UNFPA Expand their Training Program to Mexico
    Prada Group and UNFPA: First of its kind fashion training programme in Ghana and Kenya
    ARTIST THEASTER GATES AND PRADA GROUP ANNOUNCE INAUGURAL COHORT OF DORCHESTER INDUSTRIES EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN LAB AWARDEES
    THEASTER GATES’S DORCHESTER INDUSTRIES AND PRADA GROUP ANNOUNCE THE DORCHESTER INDUSTRIES EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN LAB
    PRADA GROUP INVESTMENTS IN TALENT AND EDUCATIONAL ADVANCED PROGRAMMES
    PRADA GROUP JOINS THE VALUABLE 500
    PRADA GROUP APPOINTMENT OF MALIKA SAVELL
    PRADA GROUP DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION ADVISORY COUNCIL

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