Caroline Zoe Schumm

Caroline Zoe Schumm (Zoe) (born May 27, 1988) is an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. Her maiden name is Caroline Zoe Waggoner.

She is the founder of the fair trade apparel brand 4 All Humanity which has empowered thousands of workers worldwide and aids in providing an education to children in developing nations.

Zoe grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas. Knowing from a young age that she wanted to be a fashion designer, she attended Kansas State University from 2006 to 2011 with a dual major in Apparel & Textile design and Apparel Marketing and a minor in business. While at Kansas State, Zoe was awarded Outstanding Senior in her field, won a national design competition, and also won various regional design competitions. In college, Zoe studied the effects that mainstream fashion manufacturing had in countries where it was produced, including the prevalence of child labor, very low wages, inhumane working conditions, and environmental pollution.

Design career

4 All Humanity

In 2012, at age 24, after working in commercial apparel as a designer and technical designer at GTM Sportswear, Zoe created the apparel line 4 All Humanity as a sustainable fashion answer to what she viewed as unsustainable fast fashion.

In 2013, 4 All Humanity partnered with Haiti Lifeline Ministries and launched the program T-Shirts 4 Education, where each shirt sold sends a child (in a developing country) to school for a month with a school uniform and school supplies. 4 All Humanity has been featured in prominent media, including the premier issue of Conscious Magazine along with several smaller publications.

Today, 4 All Humanity works with partners who employ hundreds of people in Guatemala, providing them with good working conditions and fair wages, which allow the artisans to pull themselves up out of poverty while providing education and hope to their families .

Zoe speaks regularly about her journey from fashion designer to social entrepreneur. Her work with 4 All Humanity and creating sustainable employment for artisans led her to speak at the 2013 Kansas Conference on Poverty.

She is a consultant for companies and designers who want products, services or events that are as eco-conscious as possible, and has worked with global brands including Education and More.

Zoe currently serves as the Associate Director on the board of directors of Education and More.

Awards

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