Jonathan Joseph is the CEO and creator of Little Red Fashion, the first fashion ed-tech and publishing company focused on teaching kids about and through fashion. He’s the author of their first book “The Little Red Dress: A Kids Book About Fashion.” LRF is also developing unique DEI & CSR resources including consulting for fashion companies to leave a better industry for the kids they write stories for.

Before founding Little Red Fashion, Jonathan was a strategic and fundraising management consultant working with nonprofits and startup firms across sectors. His passion for advocacy in the LD, LGBTQIA+ and Cerebral palsy communities has been a personal focus since his first keynote delivered at just 14. Jonathan serves on the board of The New Haven Pride Center, advisory board for The HIV League, and is an ambassador for anti-human trafficking organization Beauty for Freedom. He splits his time between Connecticut and Los Angeles. His CT based fine art practice, J. Joseph Studio specializes in medium and large format abstract works which began as a way to explore the way his ataxic cerebral palsy informs his reality. 

In this episode, Jonathan speaks with Yashica Dutt about how shopping for socks with his mother, and later, discovering his gift for words and oratory, led him into a career in fashion and advocacy.