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Previous Speaking Engagements:

+ SPEAKER | Own It Summit

USC OWN IT—a student-run, non-profit organization that aims to connect the undergraduate students of the University of Southern California to powerful and inspiring female leaders. Aditi spoke about her work on the Fashion Breakout Panel.

+ SPEAKER |  Inspirasian 9.0

Returning for its ninth year, InspirASIAN is SCAPE’s highlight connecting USC students with API leaders doing incredible creative work in their communities. InspirASIAN is our way of showcasing API work in the greater LA community by bringing in leaders to share their experiences and how their identities have influenced their work.

+ MODERATOR |  Future of Women x Healthyish Breakfast 

Future of Women and Healthyish invite you to join us at Kismet for a morning of delicious food and candid conversation all about sustainability and climate change with some of our favorite women in Los Angeles. Over the past few months, we loved learning about women who are making bold moves to preserve the outdoors, tradition, and culture and thought an LA breakfast that stirs up the conversation around preserving the climate would be the perfect next breakfast. We’ll be talking about the environment, zero food waste, and sustainable fashion.

+ SPEAKER |  Let’s Make An Impact Summit

Speakers from around the country will come together to talk about goal setting, the state of content creation in 2020, leadership styles, building a community, and easy yoga & meditation practices to do on your own.

+ GUEST |  Loam Listen Podcast: Decolonizing Fashion 

In this episode, Aditi explains how the fast fashion industry is predicated on colonial ideals and practices. She offers solutions on how we can decolonize the fashion industry– as consumers, workers, and brands. 

+ GUEST |  Bitch Media Popganda Podcast

Climate anxiety– but make it fashion. Aditi speaks on the intersection of social and environmental liberation and its ties to intersectional feminism. 

+ SPEAKER |  Fashion Colloquia 2020

In collaboration with Arch College of Design in Jaipur and Indian Women Blog, Aditi spoke the sustainable fashion industry in relation to India’s legacy with design and textiles. 

+ SPEAKER | Human Rights Garment Worker Campaign – Watch 

As the premier influencer to ever work with Human Rights Watch, Aditi collaborated with the HRW team to create consumer-facing content that educated audiences on the importance of supply chain transparency.

+ SPEAKER | modeDurable Fellowship – Watch 

modeDurable empowers the next wave of content creators to educate the public about industry impact to seed and accelerate change. Aditi spoke on the labor panel on how influencers and media professionals can best understand, and disseminate, narratives around labor exploitation and sustainability.  

 

+ SPEAKER | Vegan Fashion Week – Watch 

In this panel, sustainable fashion blogger Aditi Mayer will bring nuance to the conversation of veganism– creating a radical movement that centers the human dimension and accessibility. 

+ SPEAKER | Nature Needs Heroes x Timberland – Watch 

Create & Cultivate is partnering up with Timberland for an amazing Nature Needs Heroes event at their stunning NYC flagship on 5th avenue. While the lens on sustainability has been magnified in recent years, Timberland’s environment-first commitment has been ongoing. Timberland invited four conscious creators for an enlightening conversation on why putting the planet first is good for all.

 

+ SOLUTIONIST SPEAKER | Planet Home Summit – Watch 

PLANET HOME is a creative and immersive showcase of experiences that aims to accelerate mass adoption of actionable solutions to protect the health of our planet. During this three-day flagship event, PLANET HOME will bring together world-renowned leaders, artists, and talent from music, art, technology, policy, research, and more, to present their insights and ideas on how they are inspiring everyone to become an Environmental Solutionist.

 

+ GUEST SPEAKER | Maahi Roj Festival

In this Instagram live chat, the Indian Women Blog team will feature sustainable fashion bloger Aditi Mayer, who will discuss sustainable lifestyle and an environmentally aware fashion industry. The chat will be in line with the Maahi Roj festival– an event that focus on women’s voices that push for a sustainable way of living. For more information on this year’s theme, click here.

 

+ SPEAKER & CO-HOST | Made in LA Screening & Discussion 

María, Lupe and Maura are three Latina immigrants struggling to survive in Los Angeles sweatshops. But one day, determined to win basic labor protections, they embark on a three-year odyssey that will transform their lives forever. Compelling, humorous, deeply human, Made in L.A. is a story about immigration, the power of unity, and the courage it takes to find your voice.

In honor of Fashion Revolution Week please join us for a special screening and discussion of this powerful documentary.

Panel talk immediately following film with special guests, including garments workers sharing their firsthand experiences.

 

+ EXHIBITING ARTIST | BEACON: Torrance Art Museum

The BEACON Project is a rotating video installation fusing art and contemporary social and political issues. BEACON is a compilation of next generation artists and their thoughts, ideas, reactions, emotions, and actions in response to social issues. The BEACON Project: Torrance will feature a variety of artists focused on the following 7 themes; Consent, Black,  America,  Undocumented, Camp, Migration, and Reproduction. Aditi’s work will featured a body of work documenting a matriarchal farming community in rural Nepal in line with the theme Patterns and Paths of Migration in the 21st century. This installation will explore how people, plants, bodies, ideas and molecules move in the contemporary culture. Social media movements, the politics of travel, underrepresented countries and cultures, life cycles, and how people access information are all topics of this theme.

 

+ SPEAKER | Vegan Fashion Week

February 2, 2019 || California Market Center, Los Angeles, California

How do we define cruelty-free fashion? In this talk, sustainable fashion blogger Aditi Mayer educates the audience about the realities of labor exploitation in Downtown Los Angeles. Targeting an audience that organizes around animal rights issues, this conversation will illuminate how larger systems of oppression exist within the local fashion industry, intersecting issues of immigration, race, socioeconomic status and more. 

 

+ PANEL SPEAKER | Cultural Appropriation versus Appreciation – Watch 

November 1, 2018 || USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California

All art including fashion has a long history of acquiring influences from various cultures but where is the line between cultural appreciation and cultural misappropriation? At what point does respect for other cultures lead to or become an exploitation of cultural imagery? Join us for an engaging dialogue that recognizes the difference between appreciation and appropriation. Panelists Viet Than Nguyen, Josh Kun, Melissa Chan and Aditi Mayer add their perspectives to this historical yet timely conversation.

 

+ PANEL SPEAKER | Content Creation: Affluence Influence Summit 

October 6th, 2018 || Vine OC, Irvine, California 

How can creators go about carving their unique niche, and creating content that connects on a deeper level? Join a panel of leading content creators to hear their journey and approaches to content creation. 

 

+ PANEL SPEAKER | Social Justice Panel: The Future of Fashion Conference

October 3rd, 2018 || California Market Center, Los Angeles, California 

A conference centered around ethical & smart fashion literacy, the future of fashion conference will feature a panel of speakers whose work intersects the fields of animal rights, social justice, circularity,  technology, and intersectionality.

 

+ PANEL SPEAKER | Sustainable Fashion & Identity in Nepal: Green Sherpa

August 18th, 2018 || Moksh, Jhamsikhel, Kathmandu, Nepal

What does sustainability look like in the context of Nepal? This panel will constitute a discussion of fashion and national identity, featuring frontliners of Nepal’s responsible fashion scene, to internationally-acclaimed thought leaders and content creators.

 

+ PANEL SPEAKER | Justice for an Interconnected World

June 9th, 2018 || Laguna Beach Congressional, Laguna Beach, California

Hear from an inter-generational panel of experts working on the frontlines of social change. Speakers include representatives from immigration and economic justice organization OCCORD, and Founder/Editor in Chief of UC Irvine’s student-run InSight Magazine, an online publication about poverty and inequality in Southern California. 

 

+ EXHIBITING ARTIST | Girl Behind The Lens: Stories of Mental Health and Empowerment 

April 27th, 2018 || Horse Hospital Gallery, London

All sales from the WomanToWoman gallery will go towards setting up  free weekly eating disorders peer support group for women, and a women’s refugee psychotherapy group run by a trained, tri-lingual therapist.

 

+ HOST | Art & Activism: A Workshop With Jenny Doh

April 26th, 2018 || Student Center Gallery at UC Irvine, Irvine, California

Does art have the power to generate social and political change? It’s a question that’s been discussed endlessly over the centuries, but it seems especially timely in the past few months. This hands-on workshop with artist Jenny Doh will allow participants to create one’s own self-portrait while discussing art’s connection with identity politics.

 

+ HOST & MODERATOR | Identity & Media: A Conversation with Undocumedia

April 25th, 2018 || Student Center Gallery at UC Irvine, Irvine, California

DREAMers are harnessing the power of social media to reshape the narrative around immigration while forging alliances with other social-justice groups. UndocuMedia was created to share information, through various forms of media, that pertains to legislation that addresses and affects the undocumented community. The nonprofit that has functioned primarily as a means of social media organization: with large followings on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

The platform has since evolved to become a social media platform to talk about a wide array of issues beyond just the undocumented community. In this Q&A, we will learn more about the co-founders’ journey in growing the platform, how they maintain intersectionality within their movement, and the triumphs and obstacles that come with centering one’s identity in the media they produce.

The conversation will be moderated by Aditi Mayer. 

 

+ PANEL SPEAKER | Sustainable and Vegan Fashion

April 8th, 2018 || Galerie.LA @ ROW DTLA, Los Angeles, California

We care about all animals and the environment, but how does that translate into what we wear? To answer all of your questions about vegan fashion, we’re going to hear from an amazing panel of women in the sustainable fashion space. Whether you’re at the forefront of the movement or have no idea what sustainable fashion even means, we hope this dialogue leaves you informed and inspired.

 

+ PANEL SPEAKER | Sustainable Consumption – Global Poverty Action Day (GPAD)

April 19th, 2017 || UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 

The Global Poverty Action Day (GPAD) Panel will bring together UCSB’s Sociology and Global Studies Department Profession Richard Applebaum, History Department Professor Nelson Lichtenstein, Ian Bentley, local Parker Clay co-founder and CEO, and Aditi Mayer, UC Irvine student and sustainable fashion blogger behind ADIMAY.com. Together these panelists will discuss global inequality, the impact of our global product consumption, and how different actors, including young people, can get involved to address it. This is one of a series of events being held throughout the UC system to kick-off the first GPAD, a day for students throughout the UC system to advocate for an end to global inequality.

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