After studying abroad with the Honors program in the fall of 2023, I became fascinated with the ethics of our world's supply chain. As colonialism dominated and shaped industries, it left behind a legacy of unethical treatment and cost-saving labor practices that are still in use today. Through this project I hoped to dive deeper into why those practices have been able to stick around and what is currently being done to dismantle the former colonial narratives and motivations around it.

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The Interdisciplinary Honors Program exists to encourage students to combine unorthodox topics and think about academia in a new lens. While OPMGT 443 had a mix of analytical and theoretical methods, I wanted to view it through a historical lens - how has it changed? How were our current assumptions, practices, and regulations formed? It's through this project that I aimed to develop a deeper understanding of the context of my major - how it came to be, why it is relevant, and how it still needs to be improved and innovated. I believe that context is truly everything, which I why I was so passionate about doing this project through one of my major's core classes, especially in one where ethics may not already be the center focus.