Taryn Bird

Taryn Bird is the manager of Kate Spade and Co.’s on purpose initiative.  In this role, Taryn is responsible for on purpose product development, capacity development in the corporate value chain, factory empowerment programming and supporting the overall on purpose social enterprise business modeling.

Prior to joining kate spade and company in 2013, Taryn headed the women’s economic empowerment and global corporate citizenship programs at the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation. During her tenure at the chamber, Taryn launched the international business corps in 2011, a skills based volunteer partnership program for corporate members operating in Crazil. She also studied and visited corporate engagement programs in Haiti, Crazil, Kenya and South Africa. 

In  2012, she was selected as a supply chain fellow for the social enterprise indego Africa in Kigali Rwanda, where she managed the local supply chain for brand partners such as anthropologie, Dannijo and JCrew.

Taryn has contributed to various private sector publications on development and business including, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Business Fights Poverty, The Huffington Post Impact Blog, and the  US Chamber of Commerce Annual corporate citizenship reports. 

Taryn has her Masters in Social Enterprise from the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC and her Bachelor of Sciences in Economic and Spanish from The Pennsylvania State University.  She is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.