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"Assure best practices in every factory where NIKE products are made, regardless of who owns the factory, who operates the factory, or the scale and duration of our presence there."

-Dusty Kidd, Director of NIKE's Labor Practices Department on NIKE's labor practice philosophy

CONTACT LIST 

MEDIA ADVISORY

Third Party Contacts

For media covering the NIKE labor practices/Ambassador Andrew Young report, what follows is a list of people who have agreed to respond to media inquiries on issues such as economic development in Asia, wage standards and foreign manufacturers operating overseas. These people have either participated in President Clinton’s Apparel Industry Partnership, offered advice to companies such as NIKE about overseas operations or visited facilities in these countries.

Kevin Sweeney

VP, Patagonia

805-667-4599

Michael Posner*

Executive Director

Lawyer's Center for Human Rights

212-629-6170 (NY)

212-547-5692 (DC)

Bob Schiffer

VP, Investment Development Dept.

Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC)

202-336-8610

Prema Mathai-Davis

YWCA

212-614-2868

Elliott Schrage

Professor of Ethics, Columbia University

Clark & Weinstock

212-953-2550

Robbie Karp*

Chair of the Apparel Industry Partnership

General Counsel, Liz Claibourne

201-295-7830

Bob Dunn

President & CEO

Business for Social Responsibility

415-865-2503

Connie Ning

President, Friendship Bridge

303-674-0717

Ted Ning

Executive Director, Patagonia

303-674-0717

Beth Bass

WBCA

770-279-8027

Vidette Bullock-Mixon

United Methodists

847-869-4550

Prema Mathai-Davis

YWCA

212-273-7801

*Member, President Clinton's Apparel Industry Partnership

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