CBEY Resident Fellows, Experts, Faculty, Staff

Michelle Gabriel

Resident Fellow at Yale Center for Business and the Environment
Lecturer at Yale University
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Michelle Gabriel is an educator, researcher, and strategist focused on the systems, policies, and approaches needed to drive sustainable transformation across the fashion industry and society. 

A leading voice at the intersection of society, business, fashion, and sustainability, Michelle is a lecturer at Yale University School of the Environment and Columbia University. 

Following a career in fashion and textiles, Michelle is currently completing her Ph.D. in social policy and political economy at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. Her research, publications, and teaching bridge theory and practice, with a focus on fashion system behavior, value and supply chains, sustainability strategy, consumerism, public policy, and global political economy.