Lilia Gaitan

Lilia Gaitan

Americas, Colombia, Economic Innovation and Growth, 2022

Lilia works in the Community Development sector leading La Cortesana Textile Coworking. Lilia is a fashion designer that specializes in textile innovation by transforming the way the industry connects, works, and communicates. The fellow works with B2C (students, entrepreneurs, seamstresses, cutters, dressmakers, embroiderers, printers, tailors, etc.), B2B (companies, brands, and factories), and B2G through alliances with governments to offer a tool for training and employment. Lilia recognizes the need to connect all the supply and demand in the textile industry in a faster, better, and transparent way. The business is unique because they are the only platform that interconnects in a transparent and direct way with the industry. Coming to the YLAI Fellowship, Lilia ’s top business challenge is Finance.