Bob Bland

Senior Creative Advisor | She/Her

Bob Bland is the mother of 2 young daughters, a social entrepreneur, startup & nonprofit executive, international speaker + advocate for domestic manufacturing, sustainable supply chains and design entrepreneurship education. She is also a women’s rights activist and one of the National Co-Chairs of the Women's March on Washington. On January 21st 2017, she organized over 5 million people to march worldwide in a historic, women-led demonstration- the largest single day protest in United States history.

In March 2020, she co-founded Masks For America, a non-profit volunteer coalition that has raised $1M from 15,000 grassroots donors + donated 1,500,000 masks and other PPE to frontline essential workers in 250 locations across the US, Puerto Rico and Tribal Nations. Her project was women and people of color-led, locally + nationally. She advocates for the millions of Americans who, like her, are disabled by autoimmune disorders compounded by the devastating effects of four years living with Long COVID. 

For her work on the Women’s March, she has received numerous awards including Forbes’ 50 World's Greatest Leaders, Time 100's Most Influential People, Glamour’s Women of the Year Award, Working Mother Magazine’s 5 Most Powerful Moms and New York State’s Woman of Distinction.

Previous to her work with Women’s March, Ms. Bland was already an established entrepreneur, speaker and advocate with 15 years’ experience in the fashion + manufacturing industries. Her previous social enterprise, Manufacture New York, remains at the very essence of the foundational rework of our economies that must be done in order for women, creatives, manufacturers, their families and communities to thrive. MNY served as a case study at The United Nations and in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Seoul, Los Angeles, Raleigh, Las Vegas, Washington D.C. and NYC.