Inspired by her Nigerian heritage, Autumn launched a capsule collection of African printed dresses in 2009. Since then, Autumn has been named: “Fashion’s Next” by: Uptown, Marie Claire, and Essence Magazines.  Her designs have garnered over 50 top-tier press placements in: Vogue, Glamour, WWD. 

She’s Global Good Fund fellow, and shares

 her entrepreneurial journey via a bi-weekly 

Column for Forbes.

Beauty through design is at the heart of everything Maggie Parkhouse does as a Creative Director at Spicefire. She has focused the majority of her career on designing products that make women feel exquisite inside and out.

Her success on a variety of consumer product brands is directly linked to her multi-dimensional, global understanding of the female consumer. By tapping into cultural insights, emotional drivers and socio-economic trends, she leads creative solutions that deliver on business strategy for her clients. She lives by the motto,“All women have the right to lovely things.”

Lila Rimalovski is  a second year student at The NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Concentrating in politics, feminist theory, and computer science, Lila seeks activist communities in and out of the classroom. After publishing her first book in 2014, she continues her work in journalism with the civic tech blog and publication Civicist.

Lila will be studying at NYU Washington, DC next semester.