Stacey Edgar, PhD, is an award-winning social entrepreneur, educator, and researcher who is the executive director of the International Folk Art Market—the largest juried folk art market in the world that attracts tens of thousands of visitors and volunteers every summer. Additionally, she is the founder of Craft Routes AI, an AI-powered, mobile-first travel discovery platform connecting cultural travelers with artisan communities, which will launch next year. She earned her PhD in social work from Colorado State University and teaches inclusive leadership in their executive MBA program at the Leeds School of Business. For nearly two decades, she was the founder and leader of Global Girlfriend, a multimillion-dollar fair-trade enterprise that worked with hundreds of women-led artisan groups in forty countries.