Abai Schulze is the Founder and Creative Director of ZAAF. Her life journey has taken her from an orphanage in Addis Ababa to the United States and across the globe. Schulze is committed to using her academic background in economics and fine arts to create unique and practical expressions of beauty, and to open windows of opportunity for talented artisans in Ethiopia and the rest of Africa. Her creativity draws from precious cultural relics and she allows them renewed expression through innovative, uplifting and modern designs.