Topaz Page-Green

Topaz Page-Green is a fashion model and the founder and president of the non-profit corporation The Lunchbox Fund.

Early life and education Topaz Page-Green was born in 1979 and raised near Johannesburg, South Africa. Her father and mother were geologists.

She attended Kingsmead College, an all-girls private school in Johannesburg.

Career After graduating from high school, Page-Green began her career in modelling after moving to London. While travelling on London's Underground she was noticed by a model scout and signed soon after with a talent agency. On a trip home to South Africa in 2003

She studied Africa, sociology, and human rights at the New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

The Lunchbox Fund Page-Green founded The Lunchbox Fund in 2005. The fund provides one meal each day to 22,000 underprivileged high school students, totaling more than 2.6 million meals a year. The Lunchbox Fund began in the historically at-risk Soweto district of Johannesburg.

Feedie Page-Green created Feedie, an app which is credited as being the “first philanthropic food app.” Designed to be used by ‘foodies’ and others, the Feedie application uses social media to transform people's passion for sharing their photos of food into the sharing of actual food with school children in need via The Lunchbox Fund.

Recognition In September 2015 fashion designer Kenneth Cole included Page-Green in his “Courageous Class” ad campaign re-affirming his brand's motto, “Look Good, For Good.”

Forbes included Topaz Page-Green in their list of the “World’s Most Powerful Business Women” in 2015.

Personal life and style Page-Green lives in an apartment in New York City's East Village. She has lived in New York since 2001.

Page-Green has a son with her partner Emmanuel Roman.