Founder & CEO

Ayesha Barenblat

Ayesha is a social entrepreneur with a passion for building sustainable supply chains that respect people and our planet. With over 15 years of leadership to promote social justice and sustainability within the fashion industry, she founded Remake to mobilize citizens to demand a more just, transparent, and accountable fashion industry. Remake’s free educational resources, advocacy campaigns, and sustainable brands directory are focused on making fashion a force for good.

Ayesha has worked across the public, private, and civil society sectors to promote the rights and dignity of the women who make our clothes. Prior to founding Remake, she led brand engagement at Better Work, a World Bank and United Nations partnership, to ensure safe and decent working conditions in garment factories around the world. Prior to this, she ran the fashion vertical at BSR, providing strategic advice to brands including Levi Strauss and Company, Marks and Spencer, Nike, and the Gucci Group on the design and integration of sustainability into business. She has a master’s degree in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley.

She counts both Karachi and San Francisco as her homes, and she is happiest when spending time with the women who bring our fashion to life and amplifying the stories of fashion’s most essential workers.

Directory of Advocacy and Policy

Elizabeth Cline

Elizabeth L. Cline is a Brooklyn-based advocate, author, journalist, and expert on consumer culture, fast fashion, sustainability and labor rights in the apparel industry. Elizabeth’s critically acclaimed 2012 expose, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, is a founding text of the modern global ethical and sustainable fashion movement. Her follow-up conscious shopping guide, The Conscious Closet: A Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good, was published in August of 2019. More recently, Elizabeth has turned her expertise towards strategic organizing and campaigning for labor rights in fashion, working on strategy for the landmark #PayUp campaign and officially coming on board with Remake in 2021 before working on the Bangladesh Accord renewal and the Garment Worker Protection Act in California. She is the co-author of the PayUp Fashion 7 Actions, a platform for systemic change and brand accountability to garment workers. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in International Relations and Global Studies at Northeastern University.

Elizabeth earned her undergraduate degree in political philosophy from Syracuse University in 2001 and has almost two decades of experience in journalism, covering fashion, technology, labor, women’s rights, and the environment. She is regularly interviewed on television and radio by globally recognized news outlets, including Al Jazeera, MSNBC, The New York Times, and NPR. She is a current contributor to Forbes. Her writing has appeared in Vogue Business, Slate,  Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, AMC.com, SundanceTV.com, The New Republic and The Nation, among others.

Elizabeth is originally from south Georgia and now lives in Brooklyn with her partner Joseph D. Rowland, of the band Pallbearer, and their cat Lily.

Director of Marketing & Partnerships

Katrina Caspelich

Director of Marketing & Partnerships

Katrina is an experienced marketing strategist who strives to build the Remake brand using storytelling, creative thinking, and integrated marketing. A fashionista to the core, Remake allows her to fulfill two of her passions in life: public relations and socially conscious fashion companies.

With over 12 years of experience working within the fashion industry, Katrina has worked as a talent agent, fashion editor, content creator, and marketing manager. These roles not only expanded her knowledge of fashion but they introduced her to many creative people within the industry. She found herself building relationships with top PR firms, designers, stylists, celebrities, photographers, editors, and bloggers, which she enjoys greatly.

Katrina has a BS in Marketing from California State University San Marcos. Immediately after graduation, she moved to New York City where she spent the last 7 years working with fashion companies on brand management, media relations, and content creation.

“Building a brand through storytelling is at the heart of what PR professionals do. At Remake, storytelling is the heart of our brand. Through the stories we share, we are able to celebrate sustainable style, promote ethics, and improve the lives of those who make our clothes.”

Director of Education

Samantha Hartsock

As the Director of Education, Sam supports a growing community of Remake Ambassadors, individuals working across the fashion industry and in their local communities to make fashion a force for good. She is narrowly focused on empowering the next generation of sustainable fashion and women empowerment advocates.

From TOMS to fair trade to grassroots advocacy, Sam has spent her career at the intersection of social impact and business, knowing full well that without informed, empathetic consumers the fashion industry will not change.

Sam holds a BA in Textile and Apparel Manufacturing from the University of Missouri, and an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School. Alongside Remake, Sam is a managing partner at qb., a purpose-driven consulting firm helping clients create and implement sustainability and diversity and inclusion strategies and communications.

“As Brittney Packnett says, ‘Knowledge is power. Take powerful action.’ At Remake, we elevate makers’ voices bringing awareness to the vast inequities across the fashion industry; we listen to their stories. Then we act; we #wearourvalues and share what we’ve learned with our local community.”

Director of Content

Chelsey Grasso

Chelsey joins Remake with over eight years of professional editorial experience, beginning her career as a photo editor for a national teen magazine and subsequently moving into writing, editing, and content managing for a diverse range of major print and online publications.

With an academic background in film and creative writing, Chelsey is interested in the power of storytelling and how universality can be accessed through personal narrative. Chelsey is particularly excited by Remake’s interrogation of fast fashion as a women’s issue, and she is thrilled to get to play a role in spreading this insight.

“I care deeply about women and this planet, and fast fashion is harming them both. For me, sustainable fashion isn’t only a question of saving the earth, but also, it is an examination of ethics and the way we treat each other. It is a persistence in the hope for a better future, both environmentally and humanistically.”

Director of Development

Amelia West

Amelia has spent her career working for progressive causes. She brings 12 years of experience working in nonprofit and political fundraising, marketing and event planning in Atlanta, Boston and San Francisco. Amelia, who holds a BA in Art History from the University of Georgia, helps Remake by developing and implementing strategic plans to raise vital funds and to create and maintain donor relationships.

As a former Remake Community Organizer, she loves growing the Atlanta ambassador community and continues to help friends make the cultural shift away from fast fashion and realize their potential to make a difference.

“What I love most about Remake is that it’s a community of women looking after women. By encouraging one another to learn about the issues and to be more thoughtful in our spending, we remake our world for the better.”

Education Manager

Caroline Miller

Caroline joins Remake to support the development of the Ambassador and Student Ambassador programs. Having served as a Campus Rep for a Fortune 500 company, she knows how to maximize a brand’s presence on college and university campuses. Through digital and experiential initiatives, Caroline looks forward to engaging with students about the clothes they wear and the individuals who make them.

A graduate of Grand Valley State University, Caroline has a B.S. in Hospitality and General Business, with an emphasis in Meetings and Events. In her career, she wants to assist brands – including Remake – fulfill and exceed their goals through authentic and innovative engagement programs.

“My goal is to help Remake become a catalyst for ethical and sustainable fashion practices on campuses. Along the way, I hope to foster and nurture relationships with like-minded individuals in the fashion community, Remake community, and my local community, while empowering future generations.”

Social Media Manager

Daisy Christophel

Daisy joins Remake to manage our social media platforms, building up and fostering our community of change-makers. She ensures that our online communities are up to date on our initiatives and news, empowering them to take action. Daisy harnesses the power of social media advocacy to hold brands accountable and rally like-minded activists across the globe while educating our corner of the internet on how we can be better citizens and consumers.

Daisy graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in Communications and Non-profit studies. She’s spent the last 5 years working in the fashion industry in social and digital media while also starting her own business. Social media gives her the chance to combine her love of digital strategy with her creative side. While she has worked to impact change at each of her prior positions, she’s excited to use her experience on the frontlines at Remake. Since Daisy was young she spent much of her time volunteering and learning how she can impact change and share that with others! Although she grew up on a farm she now resides in Los Angeles, where she loves road tripping, backpacking, and exploring nature. She’s an avid DIYer and probably has one too many plants.

“I’m so honored to be a part of the Remake team. The mission of protecting the planet and the vulnerable people on it is dear to my heart. Everything is connected, and we must work as a society to fix our mishaps of the past to build a brighter more equal future. There’s so much work to be done but there are also so many things we can all do! Seeing this community grow and work together is forever inspiring and hopeful.”

Transparency Manager

Becca Coughlan

Becca first joined Remake in the Spring of 2020 while she was working as an au pair in Maryland. She was mobilized to become an ambassador after signing our first #PayUp petition. As Transparency Manager, Becca’s focus will be the ongoing vetting of external brands, overseeing the growth of our Sustainable Brand Directory, and liaising with brands who wish to discuss our scoring criteria in relation to their sustainability efforts.

Growing up in Zimbabwe, she had always been interested in fashion, sustainability, and Human and Women’s Rights. However, it was only when she discovered her passion for thrifting while pursuing her Economics and Politics degree in Scotland that she started to realize the extent of the journey her clothes had been on before they had come to reach her. Then, when she watched the documentary The True Cost in 2015, the rest of the puzzle came together. She understood the intrinsic links between each of her passions, and it became her life’s mission to help make fashion better for people and planet.

Though she has been somewhat of a nomad since graduating university, she has woven conscious fashion and social and environmental justice into all that she has done since then. She has worked on projects educating and empowering garment workers in India, she has run her own online secondhand clothing boutique, and while living just outside of Washington, D.C., she interned at the sustainable and ethical fashion space Tribute. Becca adores connecting with likeminded individuals around the world and continues to be inspired by the fact that everywhere she travels she meets people who want to MAKE FASHION A FORCE FOR GOOD.

“Through my experiences working with individuals and organizations in pursuit of a more sustainable and just fashion industry, I have come to understand just how powerful a tool fashion is, and what a large role it has to play in the meeting of ambitious global targets such the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement. Sometimes getting dressed, in itself, is a revolutionary act”

Advocacy Manager

Emily Stochl

Emily is a writer, journalist, and podcast creator, with expertise in the vintage and secondhand fashion industry, sustainability, and labor rights activism. She is the producer and host of Pre-Loved Podcast, a progressive and intersectional weekly interview show exploring the vintage, thrift and secondhand industry: all its stories, and all its angles.

Emily has a BA in English, history, and writing from Coe College, a liberal arts college in Cedar Rapids, IA. She has 10 years of work experience in community engagement and storytelling, working with non-profit organizations to share their impact, build community, grow their resources, and create change.

As Remake’s Advocacy Manager, Emily helps lead ambassador engagement and community management, specifically around the SB62, #PayHer, and #NoNewClothes campaigns. Her goal is to make policy information and industry topics easy to understand, and to communicate to others, believing that we all have a role to play in making fashion a force for good.

PayUp Fashion Manager

Milagros de Souza

Milagros de Souza (Mila) joined Remake during her junior year of college at Duke University. She always had a commitment to sustainable fashion, but it was not until she began an in-depth study of the fashion industrial complex within her major at school that she realized how much the fashion industry needed sustainability.

Mila has committed to being a sustainable fashion activist in all parts of her life. In her daily life, Mila only buys sustainable or second-hand clothing. In her career, Mila is a stylist, model, designer, blogger, and entrepreneur in the fashion industry. In all of these roles, Mila incorporates social and/or environmental sustainability. Even during a school club, Runway of Dreams, an organization committed to empowering people with disabilities through adaptive clothing, Mila pushed for the inclusion of upcycled clothing as opposed to buying all new clothes.

As someone who has experienced the fashion industry as a business owner and consumer, she knows that being sustainable is not easy; however, she also knows that it is non-negotiable.

“I am always telling people the harms of the fashion industry — constantly urging them to use their buying power and change their purchasing practices. A lot of people find me annoying and disregard what I am saying. At times it feels futile, like no one is listening; but I persevere because if just one person changes their purchasing practices, then I have made the world of a difference.”

Graphic Designer

Hope Ann Flores

Hope Ann helps bring Remake’s mission to life by designing various graphics for branding, social media, and print materials. She will graduate from Michigan State University in the Spring of 2021 with a degree in Creative Advertising and Graphic Design. Throughout college she worked actively as a graphic designer at the university newspaper and fashion magazine.

Since a young girl Hope Ann has been passionate about thrifting and second hand shopping. She’s committed to promoting the rights of garment workers, shopping smart, and helping the environment in any way possible. She joined Remake to have the opportunity to create and design for a cause she’s always been passionate about.

Aside from school and designing at Remake, she works as a social media coordinator for The Everygirl, a women’s digital media group in Chicago. Outside of work she enjoys traveling, attending music festivals, painting, thrifting, and listening to her hundreds of Spotify playlists. Her favorite item in her wardrobe is her vintage thrifted knit sweater.

ps bring Remake’s mission to life by designing various graphics for branding, social media, and print materials. She will graduate from Michigan State University in the Spring of 2021 with a degree in Creative Advertising and Graphic Design. Throughout college she worked actively as a graphic designer at the university newspaper and fashion magazine.

Since a young girl Hope Ann has been passionate about thrifting and second hand shopping. She’s committed to promoting the rights of garment workers, shopping smart, and helping the environment in any way possible. She joined Remake to have the opportunity to create and design for a cause she’s always been passionate about.

Aside from school and designing at Remake, she works as a social media coordinator for The Everygirl, a women’s digital media group in Chicago. Outside of work she enjoys traveling, attending music festivals, painting, thrifting, and listening to her hundreds of Spotify playlists. Her favorite item in her wardrobe is her vintage thrifted knit sweater.

Content Manager

Kaanchi Chopra

Kaanchi Chopra is a designer + organizer born and raised in New Delhi, India. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Industrial Design and a concentration in Nature, Culture and Sustainability Studies. Kaanchi is passionate about using design as a tool to create intersectional environmental and social impact.

At RISD, Kaanchi developed a keen interest in the field of Biodesign. She researched and explored nature’s abundant living resources to find alternatives to toxic materials like plastic. This led to her growing Kombucha SCOBY Bioleather, Mushroom Mycelium and other biomaterials in her kitchen. She spent a semester creating Sabose, a cellulose-based biofilm which utilised waste products like bacterial cellulose and sabai grass. She spent another semester solving the problem of dog waste management in urban dog parks. Through anaerobic digestion, the solution harnesses the power of microbes to create energy from waste; energy that is then used to grow food in the urban landscape. In her last year, she also prototyped a bio-based bandage for acid attack survivors. Through her work, she aims to empower marginalized communities and create sustainable change in people’s lives. From a young age onwards, Kaanchi has been using art to raise awareness about social issues. At the age of 16, she was invited to give a TEDx talk on Artivism (art + activism) and its role in building a better world. In a course titled ‘Global Supply Chains’, Kaanchi dived deeper into fashion’s take-make-dispose business model. She got involved with Remake after graduation to address climate and gender justice through the lens of fashion. Through her Maharam fellowship, she wrote and designed editorial content for Remake. As a Content Manager, her role involves website development, campaign strategy and creating compelling visual content.

“Fast fashion businesses still have a colonial mindset exploiting countries in the Global South and people of the global majority for raw materials and labor. As someone who grew up in West Delhi, I have seen the negative impacts of fast fashion which severely affects the lives, education and health of countless women and children in Asia and beyond. From Jennifer Lopez’s jungle print Versace dress embroidered by Mumbai artisans to H&M t-shirts sewed in Tamil Nadu, both luxury and fast fashion brands sadly underpay garment workers. Being a creative, I have an incredible amount of respect for craftspeople and workers who make our clothes. My aim is to help folks recognise the human effort it takes to make a garment from scratch, and the environmental impact that garment has over its lifetime. Remake makes me hopeful in the power of community. This summer, with the passing of SB62 into law and the Bangladesh Accord being renewed, I witnessed the power of digital activism, backed by research, intentional design and on-ground advocacy work all leading up to policy change. While we all continue to partake in behavioural changes in personal consumption habits, systemic change can also be created when we all decide to come together.”

Susie Buell

Susie T. Buell is the co-founder of the global lifestyle company Esprit de Corps. As a conscientious entrepreneur, Susie pushed the company to move toward practicing corporate, social, and environmental responsibility. Since selling the company, Susie has devoted herself to philanthropy and politics and is considered one of the most influential Democratic political fundraisers in the country. A native San Franciscan, lifelong feminist, and environmental activist, Susie continues to support climate solutions and programs that develop leadership among women and girls locally, nationally, and globally.

Natasha Dolby

Natasha Dolby is a nonprofit founder, executive, and philanthropist with a passion for addressing social justice challenges. Since Natasha immigrated to the United States from Brazil as a scholarship recipient, she has been a tireless advocate for creating spaces where all voices matter. Her experience in the nonprofit sector over the last 3 decades spans the gamut of volunteer, grassroots staff, researcher, advocate, adviser, and board member.

Natasha co-founded Freedom Forward in 2015, an organization working to improve systems in San Francisco to make the commercial sexual exploitation of youth less likely and less harmful. Natasha currently serves as the Vice President for The Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund managing a portfolio of social investments in human rights, racial justice, education, women and girls, democracy, and climate. Natasha serves on the Board of Asha Rising, a community-based organization responding to the need for shelter, safety, dignity, and care for women in India, and on the Board of The Freedom Fund, a global organization fighting modern-slavery. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she volunteers as a crisis counselor.

Natasha was a Research Fellow with Stanford University’s Center for Human Rights and International Justice focusing on the domestic child sex trafficking in Brazil. She served on the Board of Human Rights Watch, where she chaired the Human Capital and Organization Diversity Committee, and on the Board of Beyond 12, an organization focused on increasing the number of low-income, first-generation, and historically under-represented students who graduate from college in the US. She has worked for the Robin Hood Foundation, Education Sector (American Institutes for Research) and Pacific Foundation Services, among others.

Natasha is an investor in Impact Partners, financing documentaries addressing social issues; GameChanger Films, a film finance and content development company dedicated to narratives by and about women, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+, and people of color; and in How Women Invest, a venture capital firm that identifies high potential women-led companies. She is a graduate of The Philanthropy Workshop.

Natasha received an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and an MA in Education from Stanford University Graduate School of Education.

Natasha and her husband reside in San Francisco with their three girls.

Alison Pincus

Alison Pincus is co-founder of One Kings Lane (OKL was sold to Bed Bath and Beyond in 2016). A digital-media veteran from the web 1.0-2.0 eras, Alison previously held digital marketing and business-development positions at The Walt Disney Company, NBC, and Hachette Filipacchi. Since 2018, Alison has been a partner at Short List Capital, an early stage collective.  Ever-enthusiastic for entrepreneurship and change making,  Alison focuses on lifestyle arenas, as well as fintech and the blockchain. In addition to her involvement with Remake, Alison is also currently on the board of Enterprise for Youth, an organization that prioritizes work and career for all teens and young adults in San Francisco.

Andrea Dew Steele

Andrea Dew Steele is an American activist who co-founded Emerge California in 2002, and founded Emerge America in 2005 to increase the number of Democratic women in all areas of the government. Steele spent her career in Democratic activism and was the Northern California Director of Human Rights Watch. She is also a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, Al Jazeera America, and MSNBC.

Steph Stephenson

Steph Stephenson is the Brand Marketing Director at ECOfashion Corp, a “greenhouse” of brands at the intersection of transparency, technology, sustainability and innovation. In addition, Steph is the co-chair of the Cordes Foundation, working to advance the Foundation’s ethical fashion and sustainable supply chain initiatives. Passionate about fashion and social impact, Steph serves on the board of directors for Indego Africa, a non-profit dedicated to lifting artisan women and their families out of poverty and Indigenous Designs, a fair trade fashion company.

Amber Valletta

Amber Valletta is one of the original supermodels, sweeping in and taking over in the mid-nineties alongside Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Linda Evangelista and Shalom Harlow. At 18-years-old, Amber scored her first American Vogue cover. Since then, the Oklahoma native has appeared on countless international covers of Vogue. She is one of the few top models that holds the record for the most US Vogue covers in history – a total of 16. Amber has also been on numerous covers of V, Harper’s Bazaar, W, Interview, Time, Allure, Elle, i-D and Love magazines. Among her most notable achievements, Amber served as the face of Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein, Loewe, David Yurman, Gucci, Giorgio Armani as well as multiple Prada and Versace campaigns. Most recently, she starred in L’Oréal’s Skin Expert campaign as well as campaigns for Theory, John Galliano, Oliver Peoples, Mango and YSL. Her 30-year tenure as a fashion icon has also expanded beyond fashion into acting and activism.

After moving to Los Angeles, Amber found success as an actress and has transitioned seamlessly between modeling and acting over the last 20 years. Her screen credits include a starring role in Hitch, What Lies Beneath , Transporter 2 and The Spy Next Door , along with television roles on ABC’s hit shows, Revenge and Blood and Oil .

A Midwestern girl through and through, Amber says she’s at her happiest when in nature and has worked hard to protect the planet. Seeking to blend her love of fashion with her values sparked an entrepreneurial spirit within Amber, and eventually led to the launch of Master & Muse by Amber Valletta in partnership with yoox.com (2013-2016). Master & Muse by Amber Valletta was the premier online store, offering stylish, cutting-edge responsibly made fashion, created and produced by some of the most sustainable designers in the world.

Capitalizing on the awareness building that Master & Muse brought to the world of sustainable fashion, Amber began speaking at global conferences about fashion and sustainability. She brought her voice and thought leadership to promote change in the industry. She has worked with international conferences such as The Copenhagen Fashion Summit from 2015-2020, H&M Foundation Global Change Award, Sustainable Brands Conference, ME Conference (2017) Environmental Media Association Impact Summit (2017, 2018) CFDA Eco-Challenge, SxSW Eco among others.

She co-founded A Squared Films LLC, producing projects to entertain, educate and inspire social change. Credits include Driving Fashion Forward for Lexus’ L-studio and Reinventing Power f or The Sierra Club. In development, The Changing Room is a global campaign and short film that addresses the impact the fashion industry has on the climate crisis.

Amber serves as an advisor to One x One, The Conscious Design Initiative in partnership with the UN. She is the FIT Sustainability Education Ambassador and sits on the board of FIT Foundation. Amber also lends her mentorship to the CFDA Sustainable Fashion Initiative and is on the advisory boards of the Environmental Media Association and Nest.

Since 2015, she has hosted and advised the Copenhagen Fashion Summit. Amber is currently the first ever named Sustainability Contributing Editor for British Vogue.

Molly Gochman

Molly is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist and activist whose work aims to bring together the collective experiences of many people for greater understanding. Molly is known for activating public spaces and creating participatory experiences through large and small scale installations. In 2014, she created Red Sand Project, an international activist artwork that raises awareness of the vulnerabilities that lead to exploitation. The project has engaged in action over 1.5 million people of diverse backgrounds — and it’s continuing to grow daily. Molly has exhibited her work at Lincoln Center, New York; Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston; Diverse Works, Houston; Chashama, New York; Sara Roney Gallery, Sydney; Grace Farms, New Canaan; Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston; Zilkha Hall, Houston; Elsewhere, Greensboro; and other traditional and non-traditional exhibition spaces. Molly is a board member of Creative Time and Wassaic Project, and is a member of the Brooklyn Museum’s Council for Feminist Art and the New Museum’s Artemis Council.

Molly’s desire to leverage her influence as an investor, as an activist, and as an artist led her to found Stardust with the hopes of contributing to a more just and equitable world. Molly is the Founder of Stardust Fund, a philanthropic vehicle dedicated to removing barriers and building women’s and girls’ collective power to advance equity and justice for all by supporting and strengthening the capacity of women-led organizations and movements to advance meaningful social, cultural and economic change. Molly is a board member of the Freedom Fund and Children’s Rights, two of Stardust Fund’s partners.

Molly also is the Founder of Stardust Equity, a mission-oriented investment fund putting capital to work for competitive returns and positive social and environmental impact. Stardust Equity seeks to disrupt the financial world to serve as a vehicle for large-scale change and challenge the patterns and structures of power that have historically been disadvantageous to women and BIPOC communities. Its gender and racial equity-focused investment approach prioritizes areas that have historically been ignored by the financial sector: access to capital for underrepresented managers and entrepreneurs; workplace equity; and products, services, and solutions that benefit women, girls, and communities of color. Stardust Equity partners with fund managers and entrepreneurs who intentionally seek commercial, sustainable solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges. Molly is a member of The Impact’s Collective Influence Council, a group of impact investors leveraging their collective voice to change the financial system.

Molly fundamentally believes in building community and working collaboratively to address systemic challenges. Her investments and philanthropic engagement work in tandem with her creative art practice in an effort to support movements, bridge gaps, and strengthen ecosystems.

Nathalie Kelley

Nathalie Kelley is an actress of Indigenous Quechua descent, most recently starring in the hit series Dynasty and The Baker and the Beauty. With a background in Social Science and Policy, Nathalie strives to use her gifts as a storyteller to tell stories that educate and inspire.  She is a graduate of Kiss The Ground’s Soil Advocacy program, and on the board of the Fungí Foundation. She is passionate about using her IG platform of 1.6 million followers  to highlight the threats against Indigenous communities around the world while elevating Indigenous wisdom and technologies as means of coming back into harmony with our ecosystem. Her life mission is to give a voice to the voiceless: namely the soil, the water, the fungí, the forest and to dedicate her life to preserving bio and Myco-diversity on the planet.

Community Organizer, Amsterdam

Iris Skrami

Iris is the co-founder and CEO of Renoon, THE sustainable fashion app she needed when looking for a black sustainable dress drove her crazy! She’s honored to be contributing with the network and knowledge to Remake’s community in Amsterdam, where she is consulting the municipality and building a strong group of advocates for sustainable fashion.

Community Organizer, Amsterdam

Marta Frigato

Marta first met Remake during her internship at Renoon, the leading app for sustainability and fashion. There, she fell in love with telling the stories of sustainable brands and got to know a lot about enterpreneurs who truly have people and planet at heart. Passionate about fashion and human rights, she currently works for non-profit organizations that focus on empowering both consumers and entrepreneurs by showing alternative business-models and how easy it can be to make a conscious, sustainable choice in our daily life.

Marta joined Remake to further encourage people to change their habits but especially to support them without judgement in their journey towards sustainable living, as she believes that empathy is key to inspire mindful consumption.

“Everyone can do a little more to support human rights and respect the planet — because things do change if we change our mindset, especially about fashion and overconsumption. For this reason, I am truly excited to join Remake to learn, inspire and be inspired by such a passionate community”

Community Organizer, Bay Area

Mihaela Tuballa

Community Organizer, Bay Area

Sophia Marie Poulos

Sophia Marie is a sustainable fashion designer from San Francisco, California. Her interest in fashion started when she was young and her commitment to sustainability began in 2015 when she watched True Cost.

Sophia Marie uses her up-cycled and hand-dyed clothing as walking statements of protest against fast fashion consumption and a call for ethical practices in the industry. Her passionate voice landed her as the Community Organizer for Remake’s Bay Area sector. Whether it’s organizing clothing swaps or natural dye workshops, she is driven to inspire, educate, and encourage the public to form conscious habits and to uphold ethical fashion and sustainable practices.

“Remake is the community I needed to feel supported and heard. We are definitely stronger, together.”

Community Organizer, Canada

Emily McKay

Emily is so proud to be apart of the incredible Remake community as one of two Community Organizers for Canada! She is a born and raised Canadian, but also calls London, England a second home. Emily began her journey in the sustainable fashion landscape after working in fashion photoshoot production. The experience of working with luxury brands opened her eyes to the greenwashing in marketing, as well as the horrifically unethical practices that happen behind the very glamorous closed doors of this industry.

Since Joining Remake in 2020, Emily has been writing about sustainability in fashion and beauty for her blog (emeroo.com) and has become the owner of her very own luxury consignment store (@mostwanted_luxuryresale). Emily is also the founder of Rising (@risingeducation), and education-based social enterprise dedicated to creating impactful teaching resources on society’s most prevalent issues. She has recently developed a teaching module in collaboration with Remake to help bring the topic of sustainable fashion in classrooms. While advocacy has become a growing passion, Emily remains a total fashion obsessed nerd! She is an editorial stylist dedicated to only working with pre-loved clothing and is about to enter her 2nd year of #NoNewClothes!

Community Organizer, Canada

Erin Smith

Erin Smith is an aspiring model, fashion lover, thrift queen and volunteer in her community of Toronto, Canada. Erin graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor’s degree in Labour Studies which focuses its attention on domestic and international labour issues. Her most favorite class that she can recall was Labour and Globalization. This course opened her eyes to the origins of the current global labour regime as well as the relationship between globalization and the work in today’s world.

Erin absolutely loves all things fashion and beauty. Some of her earliest memories are filing through racks of clothes with her cousin at their local thrift stores and trying on countless gowns and high heels that were too big. Unfortunately, at first this was looked down upon by her peers. However, this generation is more socially conscious so thankfully buying second-hand is normalized and encouraged by younger people.

Since moving out of her small hometown and into the big city earlier this year she has become evermore interested and devoted to her sustainable journey. Becoming a Remake Ambassador has been a pivotal point in Erin’s life as she continues on her self-development journey to be more than just a “model” but a “role model”, a model with a purpose and mission to make this world a better place than when she came into it.

After a highly-anticipated three month modelling opportunity in Istanbul, Turkey came to a close… Erin came to the realization that she no longer wanted to be the face of brands whose values did not align with hers. She has taken a vow to only collaborate with companies whose intentions are centered around making the fashion industry a more regenerative, environmentally-friendly, and inclusive space.

As a Remake Ambassador she hopes to introduce a new perspective on the issue of fast fashion from a model’s standpoint. By bringing awareness and the opportunity to educate clients and brands about the value of sustainability and opening their eyes to the problems deep-rooted in this social issue.

“As a strong independent woman, I want nothing more than to surround myself with other like-minded women that are committed to building one another up. Remake helps make this possible by connecting women of all shapes, sizes and colours around the world. Fighting for one another’s rights and dignity until we are all seen as equal. We need to come together and #wearyourvalues on our sleeves along with our hearts.”

Community Organizer, London

Lucy Hall

Community Organizer, New York City

Emily Long

Emily Long is a lover of self expression and a true tree hugger. At a young age she was raised to respect people, the earth and the resources it provides. As she became more immersed in fashion, it sickened her to see the negative impact consumerism has on the planet, the people and the consumer themselves.

Determined to make a positive impact in the fashion industry, Emily is a huge proponent of self education and connecting with like minded industry leaders to impart change. She is passionate about educating others on the harms of fast fashion and informing her community on ways they can make a difference through their spending habits. She currently works as the Quality, Compliance and Sustainability Specialist at Ana Luisa, where she is thrilled to be a part of the team changing the jewelry industry for the better.

Emily is ecstatic to be Co-Community Organizer for Remake NYC with Tessa Beltrano. Being a part of the Remake movement gives her a place to meet and collaborate with other creatives in order to exchange ideas for a brighter future. She proudly wears her values and wants to help others do the same. Emily is honored to help support and nurture the growing group of passionate individuals that the Remake community has cultivated.

Community Organizer, New York City

Tessa Beltrano

Tessa has loved fashion as long as she can remember, but quickly learned that so much of its production has caused senseless, horrific harm to the people making the garments, the planet, and ultimately, the wearer too. Determined to be a part of the movement addressing these issues head-on, Tessa pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Business Management at the Fashion Institute of Technology with minors in both Ethics & Sustainability, and International Politics.

In an effort to spread awareness and support progress in the ecological fashion movement, Tessa served as Special Projects Manager for TILL (Today’s Industrial Living Landscapes). She coordinated TILL’s inaugural bioFASHIONtech Summit and oversaw the launch of the bioFASHIONtech LAB, both focused on exploring and developing innovative ecological fashion business models. Tessa is now working as a Customer Experience Associate at by Humankind, a company focused on minimizing single-use plastic in everyday hygiene products.

She is honored to be serving as a Community Organizer for Remake, supporting and fostering a growing group of passionate individuals looking to educate themselves, fellow consumers, and fellow industry members about the ways in which we can improve the industry socially and ecologically. Tessa hopes to share Remake’s “Wear Your Values” message far and wide, making Remake’s wealth of resources and information as accessible as possible to as many people as possible.

“I wear my values by taking good care of the clothing I own, fixing anything as-needed, buying primarily second-hand/pre-loved garments, and paying attention to the supply chains and quality of any new clothing I buy. I try to invest in only good-quality, ethically made pieces.”

Community Organizer, Seattle

JeLisa “JL” Marshall

JeLisa “JL” Marshall has spent over a decade studying and creating within the fashion industry. Her experience in product development is what ignited her passion for sustainable fashion. She discovered there is so much room for improvement within the supply chain and wants to help make the necessary changes. Insert: Remake.

She has been an ambassador since 2019 and recently became a Community Organizer. Her goal is two-fold. She aims to better educate herself and others about sustainable fashion and join forces with other like-minded people. The thing that is most exciting to her about this opportunity is knowing how big of an impact the organization has had and will continue to have with such caring and daring individuals behind it.

“To me, shopping for clothes is like searching for a new best friend. I only want what will be down for the long haul.”

Community Organizer, Washington DC

Natalie Gonzalez

Natalie grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Being raised near mountains and the beach, she spent a great deal of her childhood outside in nature. As she got older, she became passionate about environmental rights and doing her best to live a more sustainable life.

Natalie currently works at a financial trade association in Washington, DC. She attended American University where she received her undergraduate degree in International Studies with a focus on human rights, global inequality, and development. During her undergrad experience, she took a course on sustainability and global strategy, where she became aware of the harmful environmental effects and human rights abuses present in the fast fashion industry. Beyond her studies, Natalie wanted to find more ways to learn about and get involved in sustainable fashion, which is what drew her to Remake’s ambassador program.

Natalie has been involved with Remake since August 2020 and has had the opportunity to host a Remake film screening event and a Wear Your Values Workshop. Her time as a Remake Ambassador has increased her awareness and understanding of the labor rights issues present in the garment industry and how policy can be used as a tool to hold brands accountable for workers’ rights and enact positive change in the labor sector. Natalie is really excited to be a DMV Co-Community Organizer with Riza Jariol. As a Co-Community Organizer, she hopes to collaborate with fellow DMV Ambassadors to host local events and increase awareness of Remake’s mission in the DMV area, as well as expand her involvement with DC’s sustainable fashion community.

Community Organizer Washington, D.C.

Riza Jariol

When Riza was a young Filipina immigrant growing up in Maryland, she was moved by how fashion has evolved into a means for self-expression. For a History Day competition at her middle school, she researched 20th century fashion and the history-graded events and cultural shifts that shaped it. Her genuine interest in history and people made her want to travel the world, and she dreamed of studying non-Western fashion and textiles. Over time, however, Riza withdrew further from this dream as she began to question her cultural identity, purpose, and social injustices. A defining moment was when Riza met garment factory workers speaking at a student-organized fair trade conference at the University of Maryland. Ever since their story intertwined with her own, Riza felt a magnetic calling to learn more about the harmful impact of the fashion industry.

Professor of Fashion Design Program at California College of the Arts

Lynda Grose

Lynda Grose co-founded ESPRIT’s ecollection line, launched in 1992 which was the first ecologically responsible clothing line marketed internationally by a major corporation. As a practicing designer, consultant and educator, Grose has worked across sectors of the economy from farmers and artisans, to private companies and NGO’s to popularize and advance sustainability in the fashion sector.

Grose’s client has included UNDP, The Sustainable Cotton Project, Aid to Artisans, G.Hensler, Gap Inc, Turkish Government, Levi Strauss and Co., US Department of Agriculture, Patagonia, Green Peace, 13-mile Farm, and Shayan Craft Center, to name a few.

Lynda’s most relevant experience to Re/Make is as a mainstream designer, applying sustainability values from raw material to finished product and communication and her work with global Artisans developing microenterprises based on traditional crafts to support the livelihoods and cultures of the makers.

Grose is currently professor in fashion design at California College of the Arts (CCA), where she developed landmark sustainable fashion curricula and helped establish CCA’s minor in ecological practice. She is a founding board member of the Union of Concerned researchers in Fashion (UCRF) and is currently working on garments designed to satisfy the wearers desire for something new in ways other than shopping and workshops with the everyday people to popularize concepts beyond growth.

Grose is most passionate about enabling a sustainable society and culture and the role of design in this context.

Professor of Labor and Employment Relations & Director of Center for Global Workers’ Rights

Mark Anner

Mark Anner is a professor of labor and employment relations at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the founding director of the Center for Global Workers’ Rights and the School’s master’s  program in Labor and Global Workers’ Rights, which is a part  of the Global Labour University network. Mark has conducted extensive field research in Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, and throughout Latin America, where he lived for eleven years. He is the author of more than 50 academic articles on the global apparel industry, including Squeezing Workers’ Rights in Global Supply Chains. He is the recipient the Luis Aparicio Emerging Scholar Prize, the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award, and the Susan C. Eaton Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Award. Mark talks about the dramatic life experiences that motivated him to pursue his passion for global workers’ rights in his TEDx talk, TedTalk here.

Partner, Withers Bergman LLP

Gina Bibby

A self-proclaimed “fashion and technology evangelist,” Gina is a partner in the Los Angeles office of the Withers Bergman LLP law firm where she handles matters at the intersection of fashion and technology. Prior to relocating to Los Angeles to form her own fashion technology practice, Gina represented high technology clients in the Silicon Valley offices of various international law firms and was recognized by Super Lawyers® for her intellectual property litigation work. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Gina had a career as a computer software engineer.

Gina is the founder of the Two Tunics Project, which is an organization created to take clothes from fashion and apparel companies that might otherwise end up in landfills and give them to charities who provide services to people in need.

Gina received her bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Colorado Boulder. She earned her law degree in Washington D.C. from The George Washington University Law School.

CEO, FCB West

Joe Oh

Joe is a technology marketing and creative advertising veteran of over 20 years, including positions as Head of Marketing at OnCue (funded by Intel and Verizon) and executive positions at Publicis Razorfish, Lowe Lintas, Duncan Channon and more. He is currently CEO of FCB West, the global strategic and creative lead for iconic brands Levi’s, Clorox and Hotwire.

Product Management & Marketing Strategist

Seema Shah

Seema joins Remake’s board with 15 years as a product leader in consumer tech & marketplaces; 30 years as a world traveler; 7 years as an amateur photographer; 2 years as a mother.

She currently work independently with for profit and non profit technology startups including Remake, Fast Forward and Angel List on all aspects of product strategy and process: defining vision, outlining objectives & KPIs, hypothesis-building, feature prioritization / testing, building lean product practices / processes, occasionally product delivery & hiring.

She has formerly held product leadership positions at ebay, AngelList, TaskRabbit, and OPOWER and been awarded 9 US Patents.

Executive Director, Walter and Elise Haas Fund

Jamie Allison-Hope

Jamie is focused on building the right connections, governance structure and policies to advance Remake’s mission.

As a well-respected leader in philanthropy, she has worked across public, private and nonprofit sectors to empower youth and build inclusive economies. As the Executive Director of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund she is devoted to the fund’s mission to build a more healthy, just, and vibrant society. Prior to this, Jamie was Vice President at the S.H. Cowell Foundation, focused on grant-making to strengthen families and communities and advances economic stability.

Jamie is deeply committed to civic engagement and is a visiting lecturer on philanthropy, nonprofit governance and social enterprise at UC Berkeley, Mills College and the University of San Francisco. She currently serves as Board Chair at the Whitman Institute, which promotes social and economic equity through funding dialog and leadership initiatives. She is also Chair of U.S. Friends of CUSO International, a development organization that works to reduce global poverty. Jamie has a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley and graduated from the University of Tennessee with Bachelors degrees in Political Science: International Relations; Spanish; Economics; and Humanities.

“With my board service at Remake, I hope to inspire a next generation of youth leaders to be globally connected and empowered to use their voice to promote safer and more decent jobs around the world.”

Co-Founder, Maison-de-Mode

Amanda Hearst

Influencer, Model, Stylist, Artist

Laura Madden

Head of Social Enablement, Adobe

Lauren Friedman

Lauren (@Lauren_Hannah) drives the content and social media strategy at Remake. She’s focused on developing the voice of the Remake brand and bring the stories of maker-shopper relationships to the forefront of the conversation in a shareable and social way.

Lauren is a digital and social marketing authority having worked with many Fortune 500 brands (Levi’s, Safeway, ABC Family) to help integrate digital and social media into their overarching marketing strategy.

She graduated from the University of Colorado School of Journalism and Mass Communication where she was Editor in Chief of the CU Independent. The transformation from print to digital during her tenure inspired her to reach beyond what was well-known in the journalism industry and experiment with social media where her passion developed.

“The root of social media is connecting people to people. In many ways, that’s Remake’s mission as well. Social media is powerful. The community is strong. Now, we can tell our story and the stories of the people who make our clothes at scale. And together, we can #remakeourworld.”

Product Designer and Creative Strategist

Mariam Khan

Mariam advises Remake on content and experience design strategy. She’s focused on usability and the delivery of content for the Remake brand.

As a product and experience design leader, she has has designed web, mobile and custom software solutions that are led with empathy and a user centric approach. She has successfully co-founded a company (Doughbies) and has worked with many leading brands (Genentech, Dell, Disney). She also works independently with non-profits and start-ups to provide product strategy and creative direction.

“The work Remake does to humanize brands is an important narrative that we need in our daily lives. To connect consumers to makers, to understand that the smallest purchase could have an impact on someone’s life, is what we need to live and lead with empathy.”