Amber Valletta Supports Software Platform for Ethical Supply Chains

It’s software for a hard problem. Now in private beta, a new platform called FRDM from San Francisco-based nonprofit Made in a Free World has launched a digital risk analysis tool for companies seeking a better understanding of their supply chain’s social impact. Founder Justin Dillon, a musician and filmmaker behind the antihuman trafficking and slavery documentary “Call+Response,” said: “We’ve created a level of intelligence with the FRDM tool that, no matter what type of product you have, we can give you some intelligence on where slavery or extreme forms of child labor might be somewhere in the supply chain.” One early tester of FRDM, which stands for Forced-labor Risk Determination & Mitigation, is actress and model Amber Valletta, who reports using the platform to assess suppliers associated with her brand Master & Muse and the ethically sourced apparel and accessories collection sold under that name on Yoox.com. “Ultimately, I think we need to be responsible business owners, and I think this tool is a great start,” said Valletta, whose company does not directly manufacture its own goods. The software works by analyzing companies’ procurement and spend data to identify risk and global “hotspots” for human slavery and forced child labor. Results appear in a

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