Chauncey founded Webby-nominated Girlonthestreet.com in 1999. Since then, she’s been a senior brand strategist as a consultant as well as at Crispin Porter + Bogusky and MFP leading strategy on brands as diverse as Coca-Cola, Perry Ellis, Victoria’s Secret, truth, L’Oreal, and Lousiana Pacific lumber. Her public speaking has included the following: The Future of Interactivity in Paris, hosting a panel at VNU’s What Teens Want conference, the Imagination Festival during NY’s Ad Week, and most recently this past September 2009, a four hour workshop on ethnography in partnership with Brain Ventures for clients such as Pan Rico and Gallina Blanca. Her early entrepreneurial work was talked about in the Daily News, Elle Brazil, Newsday, New York Magazine, and Teen People and now in Spain she’s been on B TV and was featured in PR Noticias, Expansion – the madrid financial paper, and soon Comunicas? magazine. Her reportage has appeared in Honey, Complex, MTV News, the New York Post, Trace, Terrace, The Source, Cosmopolitan, and Brandchannel. Girlonthestreet.com is her ongoing experiment dedicated to the spirit of enterprising creative women around the world who continue to inspire her. Chauncey left New York in 2007 for Paris and then Paris at the end of 2008 for Barcelona where she now lives with her boyfriend and dog. She is now teaching brand strategy and trends/insights to second year b.a. students at the Istituto Europeo di Design, consulting for innovation firms and continuing to develop What Women Make.

Natalie “Alabama” Chanin was the founder and designer of the American couture line Alabama Chanin and author of “Alabama Stitch Book: Projects and Stories Celebrating Hand-Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery for Contemporary Sustainable Style.”

Her work began in the year 2000 with the invention of Project Alabama along with a 22-minute documentary film “Stitch” about old-time quilting circles in her community. Her designs for handsewn garments are made with techniques from the depression-era south from recycled materials by artisans age 20 to 80 located near Natalie’s home in Florence, Alabama. She works in the spirit of the traditional quilting bee giving modern context to techniques that have been passed down through generations of women and men. Each collection is signed by the artisan who hand-stitched every seam. In the year 2006, Natalie left the company and launched Alabama Chanin where she continues to create with recycled and organic materials using local talent.

She’s been a finalist for the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Fashion; was selected as 1 of 10 fashion companies for the Council of Fashion Designers in America/Vogue Fashion Fund in 2005; has a Degree in Environmental Design from North Carolina State University; an works as a designer, manufacturer, stylist, filmmaker, mother, artisan, cook and collector of stories from her home in Florence, Alabama. This is her blog.

Jessie Whipple Vickery and Claudia Brown are “Pattern People.” They have a surface design studio in Portland, Oregon where they create prints for apparel, products and interiors. Collectively, these two design entrepreneurs have produced patterns for clients from Nike to Adidas and MTV to Pro Choice Oregon. This is their blog.

Alisa Thaloengsakdanuvon is from Bangkok, Thailand where she was a beauty and promotions director at DNA magazine and before that an account executive with Opportunity Knocks working on clients from beauty brands to destination hotels. An original Girl on the street~ since 2003~ she’s worked on trend projects for magazines, account planning research, and contributed trends from the streets of Bangkok. Her website is www.shopeverafter.com. In 2006, she moved to the United States, California. It’s an honor to have her here.

Tenisha Anderson is currently the International Editor for Papierdoll Magazine (www.papierdoll.net). She’s just returned from living in London for the past year and half where she was studying for her master’s in publishing. Before that, she graduated from Southern IL University with a BS in Marketing/Pre-Law. At the time, she wanted to become a corporate attorney specializing in contracts. Six years later she’s glad she didn’t – because she’s doing what she loves – traveling, writing, and pursuing media. These days she’s excited by the election, the release of the new Batman movie (Dark Knight), and the love of her life…Tolmee. Tenisha’s been a girl on the street since 2003.

I’m just a girl who’s trying to make the most of her 20′s. I grew up in Northern Va. and have lived in London twice. Many of my summers were spent in sunny France with good friends and good food. I relocated to New York City for a bit, made a home for myself among all the craziness, and now I’m back in D.C. -Aja Barber

Aja Barber is an original Girl on the street and has contributed to reports and given input on research projects to learn more – and more accurate – insights into women.

Rebekka Lien is a natural leader and a devout young woman. She started a sewing and couture appreciation club of sorts at her school. She has contributed to Girl on the street in many ways for 6 years. I hope to one day meet her in person. She lives in L.A.

Nuria González Ortín just got back to Europe from India where she concluded her MBA at the Indian School of Business as an exchange student. International MBA and Master in Communications by IE, she has studied, travelled and worked in different countries and often in cross-cultural environments. She can speak fluently 4 languages: Spanish, French, English and Italian and is learning Hindi at the moment. She loves fashion, dancing, travelling and feels very lucky to have friends all around the World. At the moment she is consulting in several marketing projects and is looking for a position where she could build a bridge between India and Europe.
website:http://www.linkedin.com/in/nuriagonzalezortin