Guided By Community: Swapping, Repairing & Gifting with Andrea Reyes

What already exists within our communities that can be shared, exchanged, repaired, reimagined, or passed forward?
Join us for a conversation about how we build community through the things we already have—and the skills, stories, resources, and responsibilities we share. Drawing from her Guided By Community work, Andrea Reyes will explore how exchange can become a practice of community building, inviting us to think beyond consumption toward participation, reciprocity, creativity, and care.
The Platform will launch BSEC’s Holiday Community Swap, a seasonal series exploring what happens when we approach the holidays through exchange and connection rather than consumption alone.
Stay after the Platform for our first Holiday Decoration Swap! Bring decorations you no longer use and exchange them for something new-to-you.

Andrea Reyes is a fair trade advocate, educator, researcher, and the creator of A. Bernadette, a platform exploring community, sustainability, leadership, and the systems that shape how we live and work together.
As Executive Director of the NYC Fair Trade Coalition, Andrea has spent more than a decade building community-driven initiatives around sustainable fashion, including swaps, educational programs, and the Sustainable Fashion Community Center. Her current Guided By book series explores our relationships to community, materiality, power, and the future, asking how we might build systems that are more participatory, regenerative, and connected.
Andrea is a doctoral candidate at Pace University and co-author of Apparel Costing, published by Bloomsbury. She is currently taking her books on the road, hosting talks and workshops with communities around the globe and seeing what happens when these ideas leave the page and are put into practice.
Want to bring a Guided By conversation to your community? Invite Andrea to your backyard—or wherever your community gathers.

Sunday, November 22 at 11 am at Brooklyn Ethical, 269 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY  11215
A hybrid option is available for those who cannot attend in person.
Let us know you are coming. RSVP HERE 

Part 3 of the Be The Change, See the Change Series
Sept 20– From the Hood to the Woods with Kyung-Ji Kate Rhee and the Center for Nu Leadership
Oct 25 – Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness with author/activist Yotam Marom for Louder Days
Nov 22 – Guided By Community: Swapping, Repairing & Gifting with Andrea Reyes
Dec 13 – Feeding Our Community: Strengthening Our Food System for Resilience and Justice with Brooklyn Packers