Introducing Chicago Fair Trade As The SFW Chicago Hub’s Partner
The SFW Chicago hub’s partnership with The Chicago Fair Trade Museum helps to ensure
the museum’s mission is to inspire visitors to use their voice and spending power to demand
ethically and sustainably made products, is possible.
The Chicago Fair Trade Museum visitors will learn about the historical roots of injustice in international trade and business, how fair trade provides a people and planet-friendly alternative, plus Chicago’s important role in the global labor rights movement.
Visitors will discover how to build a better world by making thoughtful choices about the products they buy and will have the chance to shop for beautiful, one-of-a-kind items in the Museum’s fair trade store. This is the first museum dedicated to fair trade in the world, and recently, the Chicago Fair Trade Museum won a 2024 Innovation Award from the Illinois Association of Museums!
The CFT Team:
Meet the CFT team that is making this partnership and the SFW Chicago hub, possible!
Katherine Bussell Cordova
After working for social justice movements dedicated towards human rights, immigrant rights, and workers’ rights for over twenty years all across the world from Chicago to Guatemala to Honduras, Katherine Bissell Cordova took on the role of Executive Director at Chicago Fair Trade in 2014. Her dedication to human rights and fair trade is reflected in her well-rounded experience throughout the world and her receiving the Casa Guatemala’s Human Rights Award. Katherine currently lives in Chicago and has two young adult children, Sof and Mattie.
Nancy Demuth
Nancy joined Chicago Fair Trade as Director of Outreach in 2022 after working for some of the UK’s pioneering fair trade organizations. At Twin & Twin Trading, she traveled to coffee cooperatives in Rwanda and Burundi to market their coffee to specialty buyers. She later worked for the non-profit arm of Traidcraft on fundraising and campaign initiatives, including the COVID-19 Fast Fashion Crisis Campaign calling on UK fashion brands to pay garment workers fairly. She holds an MBA in Sustainable Innovation from the University of Vermont, where her capstone project was to scale up a direct-to-farmer cotton sourcing program in North Carolina.