Liu Xiang is a designer, batik artist and peace-maker from Guizhou Province, China. For over a decade, she has been working in non-profit and social enterprise sectors to support women artisans in rural Guizhou earn a dignified living from their craft, while also studying and helping preserve the ancient batik traditions of the Miao, Gejia and Bouyi ethnic minority groups. Liu Xiang is the co-founder of Bridge Indigo, a social enterprise dedicated to sharing China’s batik textile traditions with the world through product sales, custom textile tours and batik workshops.