Mitzi Mills is the President, co-owner, co-founder and creative director of Anzea Textiles located in Fort Worth, Texas. She and her partner Bruce Doeren founded the company in 1990 as a premier source for commercial, or “non-residential,” upholstery fabrics available for specifiers in the design industry. The Anzea story has been inspired by Mitzi’s longstanding sense of social justice and environmental responsibility and her background as a graphic designer. Since its beginning, Anzea has been unique in the North Texas region because of its business model. As a wholesaler and distributor, Anzea manages an international supply chain, controls pricing, and maintains an international sales force. Anzea also exerts total creative control over product offerings, custom product design, marketing, and branding making it a comprehensive, autonomous enterprise. In the early 2000’s Anzea became one of the select few contract textile houses to develop an exclusive collection of sustainable fabrics with the mill Rohner Textile AG, Switzerland, utilizing Rohner’s Climatex® fiber system. Anzea continues to source advanced fiber technologies and introduce environmentally-conscious products. The company was instrumental in crafting the Facts Sustainability Certification (NSF/ANSI 336-2011 Standard) for commercial textiles, and remains active in policy and regulatory issues that apply to contract textile specification and use. The Anzea Environmental Statement expresses core company values and embraces suppliers that share the company’s mission.