Although N\u00fa\u00f1ez was committed to a career in the military, she and her sister Betsy N\u00fa\u00f1ez, 26, co- founded Sword & Plough in 2012. Growing up in a military family Emily followed in her father\u2019s footsteps and joined the Army. She currently serves as an Intelligence Officer with the Group Support Battalion in the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Carson, Colorado. Prior to joining the military, N\u00fa\u00f1ez enrolled in the Army ROTC at the University of Vermont and and Middlebury College in Vermont in 2008. It was there during her senior year that the idea to launch her entrepreneurial venture was born.<\/p>\n
The idea to create her fashion company came to N\u00fa\u00f1ez after a talk at the Middlebury\u2019s Center for Social Entrepreneurship. During the Social Entrepreneurship Symposium at Middlebury Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen Fund talked about businesses that had incorporated recycling into their business model. N\u00fa\u00f1ez took note and put her social entrepreneur spirit to work. She began to think about what around her was routinely wasted and could be recycled and turned into something powerful. \u201dI was aware that there was a lot of military surplus that was wasted, thrown away or burned,\u201d N\u00fa\u00f1ez says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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