Patagonia has been working with Wolverine World Wide (WWW) for four years to build a successful line of hiking boots, lifestyle and multi-sport shoes, sandals and more. We rely heavily on WWW's experience making footwear – an extremely complicated process – but stay involved in every step of the process. That's why members of Patagonia's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team recently traveled to China to check out our shoe factories. Social and Environmental Responsibility Director Cara Chacon and Social and Environmental Responsibility Analyst Julie Netzky toured all five of our footwear factories to get to know WWW's CSR team and learn about their program. "The week-long factory visits were really important for both brands to benchmark our CSR programs, share best practices and knowledge and move the factories forward on compliance," said Cara, who has spent 11 years auditing over 1,000 factories and helping brands improve their CSR programs.