Brandi Shigley, Founder of Fashion Denver, is also a TEDx Speaker and a serial entrepreneur. Brandi is often a featured subject in articles on Fashion, entrepreneurship, and has been featured on CNN Money.   

 

Sammy Taggett, (Shoeboxmoses) is an International DJ featured in FORBES as an authority on new tech in the Festival space. He is best known for his work as the official DJ for elite events with Sir Richard Branson, the Mavericks Entrepreneurial group and as the esteemed DJ for Mindvalley's A-fest.  Sammy spends a majority of the year on tour performing at events around the world for changemakers.   You can also find Sammy sharing the stages at GlobalDanceFest with the worlds biggest musical acts, Snoop Dog, Avicii, Kaskade, Tiesto, Empire of the Sun and Grammy award winner Skrillex.

 

The real beauty in the story of Brandi and Sammy is that they were both adopted from the same orphanage in Manilla, Philippines, and forged a friendship in Denver Colorado, before both discovering that their roots stemmed from the same facility. 

 

It was on their first humanitarian mission "Clean Water Philippines", where they discovered that not only were they adopted at similar times, but they were also both adopted out of the same orphanage. The odds of this are incredible considering the astounding fact that there an estimated 1.8 Million orphans in the Philippines.

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Brandi Shigley: "I was abandoned at the hospital in Manila, Philippines and then lived in an orphanage for about eight months. For the next eight months of my life, a woman named Marie Dehner fostered me until I was adopted into the Shigley family in Colorado. Sammy was found in the trash, thrown away in a shoebox and someone brought him to the orphanage. "

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Sammy: "Research shows that having the arts and music in children is essential. We know that intuitively as humans - parents sing to their babies. Studies show that children and teenagers who participated in arts programs have shown more positive academic and social outcomes in comparison to those who did not. It’s why educational platforms are at the heart of our mission.”

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Fueled by a desire to give back and create lasting social change for good, Brandi and Sammy founded, The Foundlings with the mission is to provide education and creative learning platforms for orphanages in the Philippines to support youth for long term outcomes of meaningful lives, sustainable development, and economic self-sufficiency.