Presented by: Fellows from the Modern Tibetan Studies Department, Columbia University.

Tibetan Fellows from the Green & Rural Business Development and Training program, organized by the Modern Tibetan Studies department of Columbia University, will give a presentation for the November 6 guild meeting. Fellows are young Tibetan entrepreneurs living in exile, whose initiatives focus on heritage preservation and developing self-sustaining economies for their refugee communities. The guild presentation will give a brief overview of the region's history of fiber production and weaving traditions, and introduce the 4 wool and pashmina-based projects working to engage the nomadic pastoralists who herd their animals in the remote Himalayan grasslands of Ladakh, a union territory of India.