Jaleh Farhadpour

Jaleh Farhadpour is a Canadian jewelry designer of Persian origin. She has a Masters of Architecture and Urban Planning. Jaleh is well-known for her eponymous luxury jewelry line and is now the owner of ARCHIVES, the jewelry and luxury lifestyle boutique. Jaleh has lived in Toronto since 1988, after having lived and worked in Dubai, Paris, Rome, London and Los Angeles.

Jaleh has been involved in several non-profit efforts, starting from childhood with distributing daily hot meals and clothing in Tehran’s slums and volunteering at the Mashhad Hospital For Girls with developmental disabilities. In 1995, she founded the Faryad Group, providing financial support for Afghan refugees of war in Iran. In 2002, she founded the Children of Zahra Organization in Iran, in order to support single mothers and their children. Through that same organization, she founded “the country’s first shelter for battered women.”