Sustainable Apparel and Textiles Conference USA

3rd - 4th June 2026

New York City, USA

Lori Stamm

Director, Supplier Assessment and Improvement Programs

Verité

Lori is the Director of Supplier Assessment and Improvement Programs, where she oversees Verité’s global onsite supplier assessments and improvement programs. This program aims at identifying, addressing, and preventing migrant labor, forced labor, and other violations of workers’ human and labor rights in large supply chains of multinational corporations.

Before joining Verité, Lori worked at Ulula, a social enterprise providing digital worker voice solutions. Her career in the Business and Human Rights Space began in Honduras, where she worked as the Human Rights Advisor for the Honduran Industrialists Association for several years. She later began consulting companies in the private sector on due diligence and human rights.

Lori holds a bachelor’s degree in international development, a diploma in Mediation and Conflict Resolution, and is currently pursuing her Master’s in International Law through the University for Peace in Costa Rica.

 

Lori's sessionsView full agenda

Day 0

Time
Session title
Session type
Day 1

Time
Session title
Session type
10:00 - 10:40
Plenary
10:40 - 11:20
11:20 - 12:00
Collapsing the E and S in ESG: Protecting workers’ rights in the push to net-zero 
Sourcing Journal | Global Labor Institute, Cornell University ILR School | Fair Labor Association
Case study
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 - 14:15
14:15 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:45
16:15 - 17:00
17:00 - 18:00
Day 2

Time
Session title
Session type
10:00 - 10:45
The reality of resale, repair, rental: Can circular business models actually scale to compete with the linear system? 
Nuuly | Tersus Solutions | GUESS inc. | Yale University | Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Plenary
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 - 12:00
Plenary
12:00 - 12:30
Regenerative cotton: If it really is a win-win for all, why is it not more widespread? 
Spruell Farms | Victoria's Secret & Co | COTTON USA™ and U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol
Case study
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:30
Key takeaways and closing remarks 
Parsons School of Design