Friends and Partners

A Little Something: The Denver Refugees Women's Craft Initiative Crafts

Based in Denver, Colorado, A Little Something is a benevolent enterprise dedicated to helping refugee women achieve self-sufficiency and personal empowerment through the beauty of handmade crafts.

Persecuted for their race, ethnicity, religion, or political affiliation, and having been forced to flee from such troubled regions as Somalia, Burma, Bhutan, Iraq, and Sudan, many of the refugee women participating in our program struggle with the additional challenges of lack of education, language skills, and prior professional experience.

A Little Something hopes to empower these women by providing a cooperative means to develop their crafting skills and to sell their creations while fostering a supportive network of artisans

Moyo Jasiri

Moyo Jasiri, pronounced: [mo yo ja see ree] Swahili for strong heart is focused on empowering women through entrepreneurship. Moyo Jasiri’s programs are designed to make success inevitable by providing long-term education, training, mentoring and support to women entrepreneurs across the globe.

Econify

Econify is a web development firm based in Washington, DC specializing in Ruby on Rails. In addition to building websites for all sizes of clients, they can also help out with deployment, security, and scaling.

Sara Gray

Sara Gray is a photographer from Portland, Oregon. She calls her style "modern photojournalism" and she primarily photographs weddings throughout the Pacific Northwest and portraits within the Portland Metro area, but boy, was she glad to get her camera near the GemKitty bling. You can see Sara’s work on her blog at http://www.saragrayphotography.com.

Todd Silverstein

Todd is responsible for safeguarding the online designing experience, managing partner relationships, and, of course, keeping the gemstones especially shiny and polished. He is convinced, despite accumulating evidence to the contrary, that he can speak with cats.