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Inspirational Quote:  "Corporations do not intentionally set out to do the wrong thing. Often, what originally appears to be a great choice has unforeseen consequences. Once discovered, an organization with sustainable ideals will not ignore them. Initially, they will limit the damage they cause. Meanwhile, they will research and put more eco-efficient materials and methods to use. This will continue until the safest possible and most profitable ways for satisfying consumers, the corporation, the workers, our society and planet are found and implemented."     
Georgia Kalivas

Office:  B441                       Ext:        75224                  

Educational Background:

Georgia Kalivas a former graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), teaches courses in Textile Development & Marketing with an emphasis on color to students in various majors including fashion merchandising, textile development, art and design. Before starting her teaching career, she worked for Fab Industries where she set up and centralized procedures for the creation and evaluation of in house lab dips. At Color Tec Associates, she assisted in building databases, training and seminars. Prof. Kalivas was also the Color Studio Manager, Stylist and Dyer for Colibri Textile Dyeing Studio in Manhattan where she created lab dips. In addition to teaching textiles at FIT, she teaches Computer-Aided Design at Berkeley College and continues as an industry consultant. Prof. Kalivas’ well-rounded color experience in color and lab dips gave her the opportunity to develop a unique color course, Color Studio: From Principles to Practice for FIT's Center for Professional Studies’ Color Specialist certificate program. Prof. Kalivas has served as chairperson and vice chair of Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC) Interest Group III: Art, Design and Psychology. Prof. Kalivas recently completed her Masters Degree program in Adult Education. While working on her thesis she cultivated her newest passion for sustainable development. In line with this, she gave her most recent presentation, Getting Brighter: Coloring More Sustainably, at the Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC) and the Canadian National Committee of the Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage (CNC/CIE) joint Symposium held in Ottawa, Canada. Prof. Kalivas serves as an appointed member of the Collegewide Committee on Diversity, fully dedicated to their mission . . . “to encourage and facilitate diversity and a climate of openness, understanding and inclusion at FIT.”  She is also deeply involved with concerned others as a member of the FIT Sustainability Group. Currently they are planning for an upcoming conference scheduled for April of 2007 to mark FIT’s commitment to making sustainability the new cultural paradigm for the college.