Linda May Email and Phone Number

I make exuberant textile jewelry. It’s jewelry with attitude, for women who want a big look, a lot of necklace. My Philadelphia studio clatters with trays of bright beads and bins of warm felt.I retired as a principal and owner of CFAR, Inc., a management consulting firm specializing in strategy, change, and collaboration. The firm began as a research center inside the Wharton School and serves clients worldwide from offices in Philadelphia and Boston.I’m a Ph.D. anthropologist. I did fieldwork in India, where the textiles are intense and people combine strange bright colors in ways that surprised me. To quote legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, “Hot pink is the navy blue of India.” I’ve worked as an applied anthropologist all my life—as a reporter, a teacher of English as a second language, analyzing user requirements for big computer systems, and most recently as a principal in a management consulting firm. I started a jewelry business, Linda May Studio, to circle back to working with textiles and color more directly.