Dr. Kate O’Neil

Dr. O’Neill is a professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California at Berkeley. She works on the global political economy of wastes and discards, on social movements, and on global environmental governance, and, recently, local politics of zero waste in the COVID era. She is the author of the book Waste, published in 2019 by Polity Press.
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Ella Kim-Marriott

Ella is based in Vancouver and it has been 6 years since she took on the challenge to ditch fast fashion for good. In that time Ella has continued to grow and learn how to become an increasingly more conscious second-hand fashion consumer. She is excited to share her experiences, tips and tricks and to answer your questions in our upcoming panel discussion! 
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Samuel Antwi Oteng

Samuel Antwi Oteng is a Fashion Designer and Researcher from Ghana. He graduated from Radford University College with a Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design in Accra, Ghana. Sustainability in fashion is at the core of Samuel’s practice and has been so since the early years of his fashion journey. He has worked with several fashion companies in Ghana and beyond and was a finalist at the Gucci Design Fellowship Program 2019. He currently works as a fellow researcher and project coordinator with The OR Foundation while building his eclectic fashion brand; Otteng.
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Emily Stochl

Emily Stochl (she/her) is a writer and the creator of Pre-Loved Podcast, a weekly interview show about vintage and secondhand fashion. She has written about the climate emergency and the secondhand fashion industry for publications like HuffPost and Atmos. She is also an ambassador activist for the global non-profit, Remake, which is a garment worker rights organization.
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Rose Mae Turner

Rose Mae Turner founded the brand Rosina~Mae in 2009 after earning a B.A. in Apparel Design from Dominican University (River Forest, IL). Her brand signifies ethically made and sustainable swimwear that takes you “from the beach to the street, to the party.” Collections are now ethically manufactured in Rose’s Brooklyn studio and in Manhattan’s Garment District. Dominican University honoured Rose in 2017 with the Distinguished Alumnus Award for her work in the Fashion Industry.
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Lina Alvarez

Lina Alvarez has spent most of her career working at the intersection of business and government. In 2020, she became a student at Parsons School of Design, where she is currently completing her Master’s in Strategic Design and Management. Born in Ecuador, Lina’s grandfather ran a sewing machine business which inspired her own entrepreneurial pursuits and curiosity to rethink fashion. During her first semester at Parsons, Lina developed a 15-week personal sustainability project called the Uniform Project which examined her fashion consumption habits and her ability to reduce her environmental footprint.

Roger Williams

Roger Williams is an award-winning producer, director and cinematographer who has worked for some of the world’s most respected broadcasters and studios around the world. He has not only produced entertaining and enlightening programming, but he has also created Inspired Image Picture Company, one of the largest rental and production service companies in Canada. As a cinematographer, he continues to shoot some of the industry’s most compelling images.
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Aditi Mayer

Aditi Mayer is a sustainable fashion blogger, photojournalist, labour rights activist, and frequent speaker on topics of social and environmental justice. Her work looks at fashion and culture through a lens of intersectionality and decolonization. In 2014, Aditi had her start in the sustainable fashion movement after learning about the Rana Plaza Factory Collapse. Seeing the fashion industry’s disproportionate on people of colour globally, Aditi looked to understand the historical and sociopolitical underpinnings that allow the fashion industry to function in a colonial manner, rooted in exploitation and extraction of both labour and the natural environment. Since then, she has become a leading voice in the sustainability movement, approaching her work from multiple domains: from grassroots organizing in Downtown LA’s garment district to educating folks on the importance of diverse perspectives. She also serves on the council of Intersectional Environmentalist, and will be spending 2022 as a National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellow, spending one year documenting the social and environmental impacts of India’s fashion supply chain.

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Delphine Williot

With a background in environmental policy, Delphine is passionate about transforming the fashion industry into a fairer, more equitable and environmentally-conscious sector. Delphine’s work includes the Fashion Transparency Index and focuses on promoting accountability at all levels of the supply chain from a social, economic and environmental perspective. Previous to working for Fashion Revolution, Delphine worked in sustainability auditing for clients in various sectors as well as sustainability communication for a luxury fashion company.

Ciara Barry

Ciara is a University of Leeds Geography graduate with previous experience in the Responsible Sourcing team of a fashion brand. She is interested in the accessibility of sustainable consumption and the intersection of environmental and social justice. She is also passionate about gender equality and female empowerment in fashion supply chains, which are a major employer of women globally.