Cecilia Foxworthy
Strategic Design + Innovation
Social entrepreneur and innovative leader with over 15 years of experience in business strategy, programs, service design, organizational change and coalition building. Experience working with for-profit and nonprofit impact organizations across the Americas, Africa and Asia.
Agora Partnerships
Chief Programs + Innovation Officer
Dates: Jun 2018 – Present
Location: Mexico City Area, Mexico
The mission at Agora Partnerships is to accelerate the shift to a more sustainable, humane, and successful economy. To accomplish this mission, we work with early stage entrepreneurs building businesses to create positive change in the world.
Leading expansion and partnerships across Latin America, designing new products and lines of business, facilitating programs, and managing strategic initiatives across departments.
Agora Partnerships
Sr. Strategic Growth & Investment Preparedness Consultant
Dates: Jan 2018 – Jun 2018
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Agora identifies promising entrepreneurs from all across Latin America, and then connects them with the social, human, and financial capital they need to succeed.
Analyzed and strategized with purpose-driven entrepreneurs to design growth strategies, create financial models, craft pitch decks and define commercialization strategies for impact investment and/or expansion to new markets.
Torus Teens
Co Founder & CEO
Dates: Jan 2016 – Present
Location: New York, NY
Torus is a platform that connects teens to free and low cost out-of-school opportunities, so they can explore interests and expand their networks outside the classroom.
Built a marketplace to connect teens and out-of-school program providers, cultivated partnerships across the educational landscape and created a platform dissemination strategy for maximum usage.
ByHand Consulting
Consultant
Dates: 2016 - 2017
Location: New York, NY
ByHand brings socially responsible artisan products to the market through marketing, product development and business mentoring programs using our network of consultants, advisors and buyer partners.
Authored a 32-episode radio show aired in the Peruvian Amazon designed to help remote artisans create more successful business ventures.
The Design Gym
Community Workshop Coach
Dates: 2014 – 2015
Location: New York, NY
The Design Gym empowers people to lead design thinking in their organization. We teach workshops, build community, and spark culture change within clients.
Coached teams of diverse professionals through human centered design projects that focused on learn-by-doing with high-profile corporate clients.
Small Fry
CEO & Founder
Dates: Jan 2014 – Dec 2015
Location: New York, NY
Small Fry is a social enterprise working to create economic opportunity for young people and entrepreneurs/small businesses in under resourced urban communities.
Created an online marketplace that matched the digital skills of low-income youth with the marketing needs of local small businesses, designed marketing curriculum, managed marketing projects, lead sales and built partnerships with youth development and small business actors.
AHA Bolivia
Change Management Consultant
Dates: 2010 – Aug 2014
Location: Cochabamba, Bolivia & New York, NY
AHA Bolivia is an ethical manufacturer of high quality alpaca and cotton knitwear based in Bolivia; employing 200 traditional artisans and exporting to the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
Facilitated design-thinking workshops with staff and artisans to solve internal cultural breakdowns and identify pain points along the production chain. Engaged in business development to increase exports, including managing projects with new clients.
Global Citizen (Global Poverty Project)
Operations Manager
Dates: Oct 2012 – Mar 2014
Location: New York, NY
Global Citizen is a platform that works to raise awareness of and create learning opportunities for the plight of those living in extreme poverty.
Managed $8M budget and financial reporting; coordinated human resources to facilitate the growth of the organization.
Proyecto Horizonte
Business Process and Adult Education Consultant
Dates: Jan 2011 – Mar 2012
Location: Cochabamba, Bolivia
Proyecto Horizonte Bolivia takes a holistic approach to development by providing the community with a 600-child school, day care center, medical center, and micro enterprise incubator.
Collected and analyzed data of adult night school; made recommendations for improvement of programming and outreach. Engaged in process mapping via ethnographic research, interviews, and review of historical documentation; made recommendations for organization structural redesign.
Global Goods Partners
Director of Operations and Marketing
Dates: Jan 2008 – Jul 2010
Location: New York, NY
GGP is a fair trade organization working with social enterprises in over 20 countries around the world to bring their handmade products to markets in the U.S.
Engaged in organizational strategic planning, created communications/procurement/sales systems, evaluated and on-boarded new social enterprise partners and managed a wide variety of projects including building a CMS-based website, content creation, purchasing plans, financial management, and partner interface.
SaraMax Apparel Group
Project Manager/Assistant Designer
Dates: Jun 2006 – Jan 2008
Location: New York, NY
SaraMax is a design and production facilitation company specializing in intimate apparel and sleepwear.
Planned and implemented hundreds of design projects including project management, team motivation, design, quality control, and client communication.
Carole Hochman Design Group
Assistant Designer
Dates: Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
Location: New York, NY
Carole Hochman Design Group specializes in sleepwear and intimate apparel design.
Managed and allocated tasks to a diverse and cross-functional team of 9; increased productivity through mediation and creation of a team environment.
Baruch College
MBA, Sustainable Business & Entrepreneurship
2009 - 2013
Drexel University
MS, Global & International Education
2011 - 2012
Virginia Tech
BS, Apparel Design
1999-2002
