Director of Social Business

About Akola Project is a growing social brand and non-profit with an innovative fusion model that creates high fashion products that also have a high impact. Akola ("she works") empowers and employs over 400 women in Uganda and Dallas so they can lift their families out of poverty and become agents of change in their communities. As a non-profit with a mission related social enterprise, Akola functions simultaneously as a non-profit and a social business. On the non-profit side, Akola constructs vocational training centers, trains marginliized women to make products that sell in the global marketplace, and facilitates robust holistic programs through Akola Academy. On the social business end, Akola designs and produces jewelry that retails in over 350 stores.…