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    Careers for Globetrotters: Spotlight on Social Entrepreneurship

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    Meet Rachel Faller, a social entrepreneur working in sustainable fashion.  Rachel is the latest globetrotter to be featured in our Careers for Globetrotters series, which takes a look into the lives and backgrounds of people who are living and working abroad - and explores out the steps they took to get there.

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    Latest Issue

Contents: Social Entrepreneurship - International Careers
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Meet Rachel Faller, a social entrepreneur working in sustainable fashion


Rachel Faller successfully operated her no-waste ethical fashion company, tonlé for more than 15 years, splitting her time between San Francisco and Cambodia. She talks to us about being a Fulbright Scholar, becoming an unintentional businesswoman, and what it takes to run a business in Cambodia. Find out how your closet and the Great Pacific garbage patch are related, listen to Rachel’s best advice for aspiring social entrepreneurs, and find out what lesson she had to learn when she first arrived in Cambodia.


This special issue is a series of video interviews with Rachel. Watch the series of videos below.


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