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Bio
Reyanne Mustafa is a dynamic speaker, eco-content creator, and award-winning trash artist dedicated to sustainability and upcycling. Renowned for her thought-provoking speeches and inspiring storytelling, Reyanne has graced prestigious stages worldwide, including Tedx, the United Nations, Coachella, COP28, the Global Wave Conference, and more.
As a surfer and advocate for environmental consciousness, Reyanne's work transcends traditional art forms. Her pieces, which incorporate found objects and trash from beaches, challenge perceptions of waste and elevate the discarded to the avant-garde. Through her global speaking engagements and trash art workshops, Reyanne amplifies awareness about sustainability, using creativity as a catalyst for change.
Co-founder of SOULMUCH Foods, Reyanne's entrepreneurial journey began from her experience as a waitress, witnessing firsthand the alarming issue of food waste. Through SOULMUCH, she has rescued over 50,000 pounds of food and secured significant funding from global competitions, forging impactful partnerships with major chains like PF Changs and Starbucks.
Beyond entrepreneurship, Reyanne's passion for art activism drives her advocacy for a more sustainable future. Her viral artwork serves as a catalyst for awareness, inspiring individuals worldwide to reimagine their impact on the planet. With a unique blend of content creation, storytelling, design, and environmental science, Reyanne ensures that each project she undertakes leaves a transformative impact, empowering her audience to create positive change.
Speaking Topics
Activism Through an Artist Perspective
Perhaps the most underrated powerful tool no one is talking about in activism: Art. This talk dissects the power of how art can be one of the biggest drivers to climate solutions. Art and activism do different work in the world. Activism, as the name implies, is the activity of challenging and changing power relations. There are many ways of doing activism and being an activist, but the common element is an activity targeted toward a discernible end. Simply put, the goal of activism is action to create an Effect. Art, on the other hand, tends not to have such a clear target. It’s hard to say what art is for or against; its value often lies in providing us perspective and new ways to envision our world. Good art always contains a surplus of meaning: something we can’t quite describe or put our finger on, but moves us nonetheless. Its goal, if we can even use that word, is to stimulate a feeling, move us emotionally, or alter our perception. Art, equally simply stated, is an expression that generates Affect.
Entrepreneurship as a Force for Good
How we can leverage profit and purpose ensuring that we show how these are two players on the same team. Our economic systems have failed to do so for too long, instead obsessively prioritizing short-term financial gain. Yet financial prosperity can only be short-lived if it comes at the expense of social systems, human health and nature. It is time to forge new decision-making norms that properly value nature, people and society. In a business context, balance sheets need to account for the social, human and natural capital alongside cash.
How Eating Cookies Can Solve Our Climate “Crisis”
Waste is only “waste” if someone wastes it. Redefining waste into the novel idea of upcycling. An inspiring story of how two waitresses harnessed their frustration of witnessing food waste within the restaurant industry into a social impact business working with some of the largest restaurant chains in the US. This talk dives deep into how often the best solutions are the simplest ones giving real examples of how people just like you and I are finding creative solutions to the most pressing environmental issues.
Shattering the Black and White Lense of Activism
Finding joy in activism. Activism and joy aren’t mutually exclusive; they may, in fact, be inextricable. There is no one way to change the world. It was time we expand our definition of activism and lean into joy while doing it.
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