Kindley Walsh Lawlor

Vice President Social and Environmental Responsibility Gap Inc.

Kindley Walsh Lawlor is Vice President of Social and Environmental Responsibility for Gap Inc.  In this role, Kindley is responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive strategy to further integrate social and environmental objectives into the company’s Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy brands.  She works closely with the company’s social responsibility specialists around the world to insure that workers on the ground making the company’s products are seeing positive change and experiencing fair, safe and healthy working conditions. 

Kindley has been with Gap Inc. for 13 years.  Prior to joining the Social Responsibility team in 2007, Kindley served as senior director of Gap Adult Production where she focused on ethical sourcing, product quality and fit as well as long term placement strategies.  In her tenure with Gap Inc. Kindley also led the Banana Republic Men’s Production team as well as Quality and Technical Design teams. 

Currently, Kindley sits on the National Sustainable Agriculture Standard Committee, an effort to establish a comprehensive, continual improvement framework and common set of economic, environmental and social metrics by which to determine whether an agricultural crop has been produced in a sustainable manner.

Kindley graduated with a degree in Apparel Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, NY.  She and her husband Adam live in San Francisco with their two young children, Annabella Kai and Makoa Thomas.

Bennett Freeman

Senior Vice President for Sustainability Research and Policy Calvert Investments

Bennett Freeman leads the social, environmental and governance research, analysis, policy and shareholder advocacy work of the largest family of sustainable and responsible mutual funds in the U.S., based in Bethesda MD. Freeman is Vice Chair of the Board of the Save Darfur Coalition/Genocide Intervention Network,a Trustee of the Institute for Human Rights and Business, a founding member of the Board of the Global Network Initiative, Chair of the Board of EG Justice, and serves on the Governing Board of the Revenue Watch Institute and on the Business and Economic Relations Group of Amnesty International USA. He served on the Board of Oxfam America from 2002-10 and represented Oxfam on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Board from 2007-09.

Before joining Calvert in 2006, Freeman led Burson-Marsteller’s Global Corporate Responsibility practice advising multinationals on policy development, stakeholder engagement and communications strategies related to human rights, labor rights and sustainable development.

As Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor from 1999 to early 2001, Freeman directed U.S. bilateral human rights diplomacy and led the development of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, the global human rights standard forged by governments, companies and NGOs for the extractive sectors operating in zones of conflict.Freeman directed the State Department’s diplomacy and historical research related to Nazi-looted gold and Holocaust-era assets as Senior Advisor to Under Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Stuart Eizenstat from 1997-1999 and served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and chief speechwriter for Secretary of State Warren Christopher from 1993-1997.

He earned an MA in Modern History from the University of Oxford, where he was an English-Speaking Union Churchill scholar at Balliol College, and an AB in History from the University of California at Berkeley in 1979.