products were labelled Verified Fair Trade by WFTO UK0001-2009 to 2012. Pachacuti piloted the European Union Geo Fair Trade project from 2009–12 which traced products from the straw to the Panama hat weavers. 60 social, economic, geolocalisation and environmental indicators tracked annual changes. The pilot project mapped the GPS co-ordinates of Pachacuti's 154 weavers' houses in Ecuador, the parcels of land where the Carludovica Palmata grows, and the co-ordinates of the associations who harvest and process the straw. At London Fashion Week in September 2013, People Tree Ltd. and Pachacuti were the first companies in the world to launch the WFTO Fair Trade Guarantee System label. Press Somers appears regularly on television and radio in the UK and overseas. She has been a regular guest on BBC World Business News, BBC Breakfast and national and international radio. Press articles and interviews include: Forbes How Two Entrepreneurs Became Unexpected Activists And Started A Fashion Revolution Telegraph She Wears It well El País Vogue, Newsweek How the Rana Plaza Disaster Changed Fashion Forever and the Financial Times How to Spend It. Lectures and Presentations Somers is a regular speaker at universities, events and conferences, both nationally and internationally on Fashion Revolution, fair trade, entrepreneurship, sustainability and fashion. She has lectured on cruise ships in Latin America and the Caribbean on textiles, traditional dress, artisan handicrafts, indigenous peoples and fair trade. Books Somers wrote the introduction to "Fixing Fashion" which looks at the impacts of consumer culture's addiction to disposable fashion, published in 2015 by New Society. She is co-author of the book Working Ethically, which aims to help business owners find an ethical strategy which will benefit their suppliers, community and environment. She contributed to the book, published in 2014, "Sustainable Luxury and Social Entrepreneurship". Business accomplishments 2022 Doctor of Letters honoris causa, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK in recognition of outstanding contribution to fair trade and leadership in advocacy for and recognition of sustainable practices in labour, trade and production in the global fashion industry. 2022 Honoree Conscious Fashion Campaign, New York 2020 Winner Luxury Sustainability Award at the Luxury Law Awards 2019 Named as one of 8 inspiring sustainable icons revolutionising fashion 2016 Named one of London's most influential people in the Equality Champions category of the Progress 1000 Awards, alongside David Beckham, Duchess of Cornwall, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Stephen Fry and Richard Gere. 2013 Winner of Outstanding Contribution