Rachelle Hruska MacPherson
FOUNDER | LINGUA FRANCA
Rachelle Hruska MacPherson is the Founder of Lingua Franca, a company founded on starting meaningful conversations. Their first collections feature a line of sustainably-sourced, fair trade luxury cashmere sweaters, all hand-stitched by women in NYC. She is also the founder and CEO of Guest of a Guest, a NYC-based website that covers events, people, and places. She has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, WWD, W, and Vogue. Hruska was named one of the 13 under 30 by the New York Post and the Most Influential Women in Technology in 2011 by Fast Company.