Educator. Producer. EcoDiva.
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Taryn Hipwell is an enthusiastic and empowering Producer, Educator and EcoDiva who is committed to creating fun, authentic and bold content & events that shatters stereotypes, shifts perceptions and changes lives. She is the CEO of EcoDivas LLC and the Founder of Beyond the Label. Beyond the Label is hosted by EcoDivas *A TEDxLA Activation Series.
Taryn is from Pittsburgh. She studied fashion design and art therapy at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and screenwriting through the UCLA Extension Writers Program. Taryn wrote, produced and directed sustainability films for Warner Bros. She founded EcoDivas TV and has interviewed celebrities including James Cameron, Jessica Alba and Olivia Wilde. She has hosted EcoDivas/Beyond the Label events at Sundance Film Festival, MAGIC Fashion Trade Show and The Skirball Cultural Center. She has worked for designer Anna Sui, writer/producer David Zucker, and styled for Suzy Amis’ Red Carpet Green Dress Collection with Reformation called No Red Carpet Needed.
Taryn teaches “Sustainability and the Fashion Industry” at FIDM, and has moderated panels in LA for TEDxLA, PETA and Fashion Revolution Day. She was a keynote speaker in New York at NYU, FIT and LIM. And she headlines workshops all around the world including South Africa and Zambia in Africa. Taryn was the Arts Chair for UN WOMEN-USNC LA (United Nations) in 2013/2014. She is currently a on the Fashion Advisory Board for Santa Monica College.
Taryn was a Los Angeles Business Journal - Women Making a Difference nominee for 2015. She is a Sustainable Business Council - Best Public Advocate for Sustainability Award finalist 2016. Taryn won the eduPOWERED Fashions Against Bullying Award and Green Hero Award...and has recently been named Host and Associate Producer of the Worldwide Sustainability Awards show for EduPowered Media.
To learn more check out LABeyondtheLabel.com (click link)
Taryn is from Pittsburgh. She studied fashion design and art therapy at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and screenwriting through the UCLA Extension Writers Program. Taryn wrote, produced and directed sustainability films for Warner Bros. She founded EcoDivas TV and has interviewed celebrities including James Cameron, Jessica Alba and Olivia Wilde. She has hosted EcoDivas/Beyond the Label events at Sundance Film Festival, MAGIC Fashion Trade Show and The Skirball Cultural Center. She has worked for designer Anna Sui, writer/producer David Zucker, and styled for Suzy Amis’ Red Carpet Green Dress Collection with Reformation called No Red Carpet Needed.
Taryn teaches “Sustainability and the Fashion Industry” at FIDM, and has moderated panels in LA for TEDxLA, PETA and Fashion Revolution Day. She was a keynote speaker in New York at NYU, FIT and LIM. And she headlines workshops all around the world including South Africa and Zambia in Africa. Taryn was the Arts Chair for UN WOMEN-USNC LA (United Nations) in 2013/2014. She is currently a on the Fashion Advisory Board for Santa Monica College.
Taryn was a Los Angeles Business Journal - Women Making a Difference nominee for 2015. She is a Sustainable Business Council - Best Public Advocate for Sustainability Award finalist 2016. Taryn won the eduPOWERED Fashions Against Bullying Award and Green Hero Award...and has recently been named Host and Associate Producer of the Worldwide Sustainability Awards show for EduPowered Media.
To learn more check out LABeyondtheLabel.com (click link)
