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Ms. LISA MOSLEY is the CEO, Designer and Manufacturer of Sandal Solé®, a design and manufacturing footwear, clothing, bags, accessories and arts and crafts company.
Ms. Mosley exhibited a flair for designing and creating at an early age. Influenced by entertainers from the dance world, she studied dance with renowned teachers such as Ronnie Pratt, Chuck Davis, Alvin Ailey and Lorna Mafata (Mafata Dance Company), while performing in videos and on Broadway in the Wiz and Timbuktu to name a few. As a dancer, Lisa learned to appreciate quality, fashionable footwear.
A descendent of St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands, Ms. Mosley has always enjoyed the festivities of carnivals "back home" and abroad. Her creative flair inspired the development of the Sandal Solé® Company, established in 2004. She began designing the distinctive and exclusive line of Nation Flag, afro-centric sandals, sneakers, shoes, bags, flags and accessories to compliment and acknowledge the pride and exotic fashion sense attributed to the Caribbean. Sandal Solé® products have been featured in videos, photo shoots, commercials, model showcases, fashion weeks, pageants, tradeshows, fundraisers and independent film productions. Sandal Solé® has also designed business logos and manufactured customized products for Hush Night Club, Love City Limousine Service and USVI Soccer Association.
Ms. Mosley was honored to win several awards and features that included being featured on TV2 as VI Success Story 2006, awarded Best Cultural Apparel & Footwear in the USVI by the Daily News 2007, a sponsor for the Caribbean television show “Tempo Turns 1” in 2007, featured on Tempo‘s Down Town Island” segment and Rock De Tempo in 2008. Sandal Solé® manufactured the exclusive double sided USVI Tempo flag, provided footwear & Bags to Caribbean musical artist Alison Hines, Denise Belfon, Morgan Heritage, and Trinidadian VJ’s Jenille & Jamaican VJ Anuska.
While she continues to research footwear trends and styles to insure her designs appeal to everyone, with special emphasis placed on Caribbean communities; diversity remains consistent throughout her approach to new ideas. She became very determined not to be the middleman in manufacturing products that she designed and partnered with manufacturing plants in China, Europe and India.
Ms. Mosley has found that encouraging young people is very important to her because she feels that the "Youth are our greatest Resource". In 1989, Lisa decided to form a fashion company, West End Creations - giving talented young adults the opportunity to nurture their talents and travel throughout the United States and the Caribbean. As a youth advocate her causes always revolve around assisting youth around the world.
She continues to create opportunities where she can encourage, expose and enhance the quality of life for children/adults worldwide. In the USVI, Ms. Mosley is an active entrepreneurial mentor for Girls On the Go (2008-present), provided mentorship for UVI FBLA Chapter Phi-Beta Lambda (2006-2007) and assisted the Golden Key National Honor Society, UVI Students (St. Croix Chapter) in fundraising to attend the Inauguration of President Barack Obama, in Washington DC (2009), with her custom made Obama Solar Keychains.
In 2010 she formed “Face of the Caribbean” (FOTC), an International “15” category competition that catered to the Hair, Make-up Fashion, Model, Web/Graphic Design, music industries. This competition provided a scholarship to one student who graduated from the Charlotte Amalie HS and now attends the University of the Virgin Islands. Simultaneously in 2010 she partnered with the USVI Department of Education & Department of Labor to provide the Work Appreciation for Youth VI (WAYVI) program that offered student employability skills training/certification classes to at risk males. Ms. Mosley has partnered with “The Haitian Alliance” in Atlanta and has committed to building “3” homes in Haiti by December 2011, through the sales of her products.
Sandal Solé® is now honored to have established an additional partnership with CEF through her entrepreneurial member group “Wakotu” to sponsor “1” child in receiving a scholarship for the 2011/2012 academic school year.
Forging a career in the fields of Education and Social Work, over the past 28 years – Ms. Mosley completed her PhD majoring in Educational Leadership from Capella University and created the WAYVI Program in the USVI that assist with employability skills training for at risk youth between the ages of 9-adulthood.
Ms. Mosley earned her dual MS.Ed degree, from Touro College in Manhattan, New York, suma cum laude, completing a dual major in General/Special Education grades (1-6).
Ms. Mosley earned her undergraduate degree, from Lehman College in Bronx, New York, magna cum laude, completing a dual major in Family Counseling & Performing Arts, with a minor in Black History and is a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society.
Ms. Mosley is a Independent License Provider/Trainer of Corporate Training Materials, Certified Trainee in Child Abuse Reporting, Certified Advance Instructor in Life Space Crisis Intervention, Certified Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Specialist, Certified Group Leader Trainer, EPIC Certified Instructor (Facilitates Parent Workshops), NYS STATE Provisionally Certified Dance Teacher & General/Special Education Teacher grades (1-6) member of the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE).