Ben Barry is the CEO of Ben Barry Agency, a modeling agency specializing in curvy and mature models. He is the author of bestseller Fashioning Reality: A New Generation of Entrepreneurship, a PhD student at Cambridge University, and has served as a Special Advisor to the Quebec Government where he helped create the first charter in North America to encourage the fashion industry to promote healthy and diverse images. Ben has been featured on Oprah and is the first male winner of the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case for advancing the equality of girls and women. In 2009, he partnered with Project Runway Canada winner Sunny Fong to build the emerging luxury fashion label VAWK.