Patricia Jurewicz
Founder and ceo
Patricia is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Responsible Sourcing Network, which she started in 2009. Currently she sits on advisory committees for the Cotton Campaign, ICCR’s Human Rights/Worker Rights Leadership Group, KnowTheChain, and the Responsible Minerals Initiative. Patricia started managing the Human Rights department inside As You Sow’s Corporate Social Responsibility Program in 2006. In that role she led the Human Rights Program to tackle labor abuses at the factory level, and she began ground-breaking work addressing forced labor and extortion at the commodity level of supply chains.
Preceding As You Sow, Patricia was at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) directing the Global Cooperation Project, and at Gap, Inc., where she spearheaded a rewrite of the company’s Vendor Handbook. She has past work experience with natural dyes, Latino political outreach, and women’s craft cooperatives in Latin America. Patricia has an International MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and undergraduate degrees from Cornell University and the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Raphaël Deberdt
Minerals Program Researcher
Prior to joining Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN) as the lead author of Mining the Disclosures 2017 and 2018, Raphael Deberdt worked for Global Witness in Washington D.C. focusing on Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act. Previously, he supported a Congolese NGO involved in indigenous rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and helped monitor violence between communities in the Katanga province. He is now working for an auditing and service providing company on minerals supply chains and performs cobalt audits in the DRC on treatment units and mine sites. He also supports research at the University of Ottawa on international cooperation frameworks and extractive industries.
Raphael holds an MA in International Relations from Sciences Po Lyon, an MA in African Studies from Stanford University, and LLM in African Legal Studies from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and an MA in Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).
Liz Muller
Consultant
Liz is currently assisting in developing RSN's YESS program. Liz helps companies and industries develop sourcing strategies and protocols, implement standards and audit programs, and train supply chain actors and brand sourcing teams. She has worked extensively in the cotton and minerals industries. On behalf as Gap Inc., she acted as the first chairperson of the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI). As a consultant, Liz helped BCI design the Better Cotton supply chain system to support the production of—and demand for—Better Cotton.
Liz has evaluated climate change risks and resilience-building opportunities in the cotton apparel supply chain for Oxfam America. She has supported cotton merchants’ by advising on the development of their sustainability strategies and exploring vertical sourcing partnerships with global brands. Liz’s expertise extends to other commodities as well. She has evaluated market drivers in African agriculture supply chains. Liz also led a team that conducted smelter audits under the Conflict-free Smelter Program (CFSP) for over five years.