Sharon Prince (Grace Farms Foundation) - Designing From Values

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Sharon Prince is the CEO and founder of Grace Farms Foundation, a new kind of boundary-defying public space in New Canaan, Connecticut, that has become widely known as a global humanitarian and cultural center. Grace Farms is the platform for the Foundation and its interdisciplinary humanitarian mission to pursue peace through nature, arts, justice, community, faith, and Design for Freedom, a global new movement to eliminate forced labor from the building materials supply chain. In this presentation, Prince explains the origin and possibilities of the Design for Freedom movement and shares how she designed Grace Farms to embody her vision and values.

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0:00.0	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series.
0:04.0	Brought to you by Stanford E.CORN.
0:07.0	Welcome everybody to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar at Stanford University,
0:12.0	which is a seminar for aspiring students, aspiring founders at Stanford.
0:17.0	ETL, or the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader seminarinar is presented by STVP, the Stanford Engineering
0:23.6	Entrepreneurship Center, and BASIS, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.
0:28.6	I am Ravi Blani, a lecturer in the Management Science and Engineering Department at Stanford,
0:33.6	and the Director of Alchemist and Accelerator for enterprise startups.
0:38.3	Today I have the pleasure of welcoming Sharon Prince to ETL.
0:42.3	You know, we wanted to kick off the spring with a true catalyst for change,
0:45.3	and we couldn't be more happy than to have Sharon kick off the spring quarter.
0:49.3	Sharon Prince is the CEO and founder of Grace Farms Foundation, which is a new kind of boundary
0:55.8	to finding public space in New Canaan, Connecticut that has become widely known as a global
1:01.2	humanitarian and cultural center.
1:04.2	Grace Farms is the platform for the foundation and its interdisciplinary humanitarian mission
1:09.4	to pursue peace through nature, arts, justice, community,
1:13.2	faith, and design for freedom, a global new movement to eliminate forced labor from the
1:18.6	building materials supply chain. Since opening, Grace Farms has garnered numerous prestigious awards
1:24.3	for contributions to architecture, environmental sustainability, and social
1:27.9	good, including the AIA National 2017 Architecture Honor Award and the Meese Crown
1:33.6	Hall America's Prize. Sharon also co-founded Grace Farms Foods, which offers coffees and teas
1:39.5	that demonstrate what the foundation advocates for ethical and sustainable supply chains. And I think there may be some that you guys all are going to get the benefit.
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