Michelle Jungmin Bang is an award-winning eco-entrepreneur, Chivas Venture Social Impact Fellow, and Harvard Business School graduate who spent sixteen years living in Asia as a Korean American from New York City. Michelle is the co-founder and founding CEO of The R Collective (formerly BYT), a sustainable fashion brand that creates affordable luxury pieces out of high-end materials that would otherwise have been disposed of in a landfill. Trained in East-West nutrition and natural preventative care, her latest book uncovers her eco-conscious journey to heal across Asia. She is passionate about driving social impact and has served as a board director and founding member of various mission-driven organizations, most recently GrowNYC, an environmental non-profit focused on food access, agriculture, and green spaces. Michelle was recently selected as a TEDx speaker to discuss insights from Sun & Ssukgat.
