SPARK WORKSHOP
Retouch Haiti: Creating Sustainable Employment by Building Links Between Haiti and Global Markets
Facilitated by Camille Park ’19BUS and Alex Polinis
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
6-7:30 p.m.
Dinner included with RSVP
Uris Hall, Room 329
3022 Broadway
New York, NY
OVERVIEW
Retouch | Haiti is a social enterprise that provides graduates from a free film and audio engineering college in Haiti, called The Artists Institute, with specialized training in e-commerce photo and video post-production.
With these graduates, Retouch | Haiti operates an e-commerce photo and video post-production service that specializes in providing global retailers, brands, and creative agencies with high-quality, high-volume, and quick-turn around capabilities at an affordable cost. The need for online imagery is growing, as is the demand for high-quality and affordable post-production services. There exists a quality gap between current offshore vendors' capabilities and the industry’s quality expectations, and Retouch | Haiti aims to fill this gap.
Retouch | Haiti is an incubator to test the training tools, organizational structure, business model, operational efficiency, and product offering in the market. The long term objective is to create a business model that can be successfully expanded to other locations in Haiti and replicated around the world.
AREAS FOR DISCUSSION
- How do you balance social impact and profitability?
- What criteria should be used to measure social and economic impact?
- What are the technology innovations and trends impacting the digital creative space?
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Camille Park has 15 years of experience working as a producer in the fashion industry and spent the last seven years at Splashlight, the first creative production studio to specialize in high-quality e-commerce photography and video. There, she built their creative, production, technology, and post-production capabilities.
Alex Polinis is a recent graduate of The Artists Institute, where he specialized in audio engineering and graphic design. He has an entrepreneurial spirit and has been selected as Retouch | Haiti's first Operational Manager.
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This workshop is supported by the Lang Center for Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise Club, Green Business Club, and Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School; and the Social Entrepreneurship Club at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs.
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