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.

Chief Marketing Officer

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

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.

Director of Leadership Development

Julie Mastrarrigo

Julie’s lifelong commitment to excellence in design and production has been a hallmark of her career in the fashion industry. Having worked for iconic brands like Ralph Lauren, she brings over 25 years of senior management in design development at the corporate level to Remake.

As the Director of Leadership Development, Julie is focused on empowering Remake’s Ambassador community with the social innovation tools and professional access they need to bring awareness and behavioral changes to make fashion a force for good.

Julie is a California State University, Chico and Fashion Institute of Technology, NY alumni and holds an MS from Glasgow Caledonian New York College (GCNYC). She is also the Creative Design Partner for the Martini Education & Opportunity Trust (MEOT), with focus on leadership learning opportunities to inspire a new direction in business through sponsorship of the next generation.

“Through Remake’s educational resources, PayUp Fashion Petition for workers rights and focus on brand accountability, Remake is changing the conversation from ‘how do we shop more sustainably’ to how do we support real change as citizens, companies, garment makers, policy makers and press to create a more equitable, diverse and inclusive apparel industry for all of us. I am so happy to have this opportunity to engage with so many changemakers who are helping to make this happen.”

Director of Social & Digital Media

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.”

Director of Strategy and Impact

Anu Menon

Anu is passionate about promoting the rights of women and underserved communities domestically and internationally. She is excited to serve as the Director of Strategy and Impact at Remake working on storytelling, strategic planning, and donor engagement.

Prior to joining Remake she was the Executive Director of Oasis for Girls, a San Francisco-based non-profit providing intensive after school and summer programming to under-resourced BIPOC girls in high school. In the education field she served as the Director of Admissions and Operations at Presidio Knolls School and led graduate support services at De Marillac Academy, a school providing free education and wraparound services to middle school students in low-income communities in San Francisco.

She has worked on a range of civil and human rights issues at the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women, ACLU of Northern California, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, Stanford Community Law Clinic, and Human Rights First. Anu holds a BA from Stanford University, a MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Senior Advocacy 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”

Senior Advocacy Manager

Alexa Roccanova

Alexa is a researcher and graduate student at The New School pursuing her MS in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management. Her academic pursuits focus on creating pathways for circularity and social justice within supply chains, promoting brand transparency and accountability, and developing solutions to help curb environmental degradation by the fashion system.

Alexa has a BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design and a BA in Literary Studies from Eugene Lang College. Her industry experience has included working in retail, interning for various design studios, and designing womenswear for an NYC-based company. It was with this brand that she first developed her interest in sustainability after witnessing firsthand the industry’s wastefulness, alongside the pressures of fashion’s rapid pace of production.

In joining Remake’s Transparency Team, she hopes to further promote brands’ accountability for the disproportionate role they play in driving the worst of fashion’s impacts on people and planet. She believes that achieving a new, fair and just system is possible through collective action, knowledge exchange, and prioritization of the needs of stakeholders who continue to be marginalized.

Content Manager

Mia McNeil

Mia McNeil is the Content Manager at Remake, joining the organization in March 2022. She graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a concentration in Creative Writing and Journalism. Mia grew up in Chicago, Illinois, where she fell in love with writing, storytelling, and fashion. As a writer and journalist, she is highly motivated by social justice, and in her career as a freelance writer, she has worked with various brands, companies, and nonprofits to creatively produce story concerts and develop brand voice.

Mia has been continuously committed to creating a more sustainable and equitable world. In college, she joined Loyola Marymount’s Espérer, a service organization dedicated to doing service in the Los Angeles community with a focus on advocacy and a unique dual focus on human trafficking and environmental justice.

Mia has always had a love for fashion and design, creating her own fashion blog when she was a teen and going forth to design her own clothes. She has been a stylist and fashion influencer in her career and continues to be a fashion enthusiast.

“I have a deep passion for journalism, storytelling and social justice and will utilize my skills at Remake to produce well-rounded, nuanced, and insightful stories. I am excited for the opportunity to give a voice to those we rarely get to hear from and to, hopefully, create lasting change in our ever evolving world.”

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.”

Program Manager

Tessa Beltrano

Tessa is a passionate community builder within the ethical fashion space. She began her career studying at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), where she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Business Management in 2019, with minors in Ethics & Sustainability and International Politics. During her time there, she gained industry experience at major fashion brands such as Marc Jacobs and Eileen Fisher, and jumpstarted her advocacy work, launching a student-lead composting initiative in campus residence halls, in partnership with the New York Department of Sanitation.

Tessa has established herself as a leader within innovative sustainable companies, in industries ranging from apparel to personal care products. Through these roles she’s developed expertise in project management, customer experience, product development, and marketing. Eager to further connect with her local ethical-fashion community, Tessa joined Remake as an Ambassador in 2019, and soon after took on the role of Community Organizer for Remake’s NYC region in January 2020.

In June 2022, Tessa joined the Remake team full-time as a Program Manager, where she now supports the organization’s development and advocacy efforts, helping to fuel the very movement that drives her.

“I’m so grateful for the opportunity to grow my impact within Remake as Program Manager, further empowering the next generation of changemakers in the fashion industry. The Remake community is a force to be reckoned with, and I’m eager to strengthen and build this powerful movement!”

Events Manager

Alison Green

Social Media Coordinator

Jasmine Miranda

Jasmine is an Indigenous creative specializing in social media strategy, social marketing & design. She is currently a part-time content creator & business owner working to diversify her portfolio in the industry. Jasmine is very intentional about aligning herself & her work with brands that share the same values such as racial justice, intersectional feminism, sustainability & ecofeminism.

Jasmine’s approach to activism, specifically on social media, is to position information in a creative way that calls others to take positive and impactful action. She has a strong passion for empowering and making space for the Q-BIWOC (Queer, Black, Indigenous + Women of Color) community through her work & personal life. 

Jasmine has been a Remake ambassador for the past two years and is very much looking forward to being a part of the Remake team, becoming even more hands-on in her industry, and strengthening her activism to new heights.

Web Designer & Developer

Christina Cheng

Christina is a designer, developer, artist and podcaster.

She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a major in Environmental Design, a minor in Art History, and a concentration in Graphic Design. She enjoys working with analog and digital techniques to create fun and lively pieces. Her areas of interest include, but are not limited to: art, architecture, history, science, urbanism, digital media, and recently, badminton.

Upon graduating, Christina worked in-house in DDG (formerly, Development Design Group, Inc.) and BCT Architects, as a full-time Environmental Graphic Designer, focusing on creating retail brand experiences. Christina thoroughly enjoys the multidisciplinary nature of her job as it helps keep the creative juices flowing!

After a few intensive years in the corporate world, Christina founded Tiny Oak Studio, a boutique graphic and web design company helping small businesses and organizations with their digital marketing needs.

She has always been interested in finding ways design can be used to create a more sustainable world. Christina is honored to have the opportunity to work with the Remake team on creating websites and web apps that help push for human rights and climate actions.

Graphic Designer

Caroline Renzelman

Caroline is an LA-based graphic designer. With a deep-seated belief in the power of design to promote positive change, Caroline brings a passion for sustainability, social responsibility, and labor rights to their work.

Caroline graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from CalArts in 2016, with a foundation in multidisciplinary, human-centered design. In the following years, they worked for many global corporations and ad agencies including Urban Outfitters, Disney, Apple, and Wieden Kennedy, cultivating a diverse skillset through hands-on experience in some of the largest branding campaigns in the world. While grateful for the experience, these projects provided a firsthand understanding of the wasteful, unsustainable, and exploitative nature of large-scale retail manufacturing processes that conflicted with their personal values. They are thrilled to join Remake’s team where those values are collectively championed.

“I feel privileged to contribute to Remake’s mission. In a world where products that are detrimental to the planet and people are constantly advertised to us, I feel that designers should use their skills to promote positive change. I am excited to elevate the Remake brand to amplify our message, and help create a more sustainable and equitable future.”

In addition to their design work, Caroline is an avid thrift/vintage enthusiast who believes in the transformative power of fashion as a vehicle for joy and self-expression. In their free time they can be found in their backyard refurbishing curb furniture, creating ceramic art or binging Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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.

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.

Cameron Russell

Cameron is a model, organizer, and writer. She spent the last eighteen years working as a model for clients like Prada, Calvin Klein, Victoria’s Secret, H&M, Vogue and Elle. In 2016 she co-founded the Model Mafia, a growing network of hundreds of fashion models committed to building a more equitable, just, sustainable industry and world. With over 38 million views and counting, she gave one of the top ten most popular TED talks of all time on the power of image. She’s currently finishing work on a book about fashion, intuition, and power.

JaMel Perkins

JaMel Perkins has been a community volunteer and activist for the past 40 years, focusing her efforts on empowering women and children, public health, education, and ending domestic violence and human trafficking. She was involved with the League of Women Voters, Battered Women’s Alternatives, and Partners Ending Domestic Abuse. Perkins also served on the Justice and Courage Panel, which oversees all domestic violence cases and their coordination with law enforcement agencies in San Francisco. She has served on many boards including the San Francisco Education Fund, N.A.R.A.L, Arthritis Foundation, Greenbelt Alliance, and UCSF’s Wellness Council. She currently serves on the San Francisco Mayor’s Task Force on Anti-Human Trafficking and the San Francisco Collaboration Against Human Trafficking.

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

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 Bay Area

Amy Auerbach

As a sustainable fashion designer, Amy Auerbach strives to maximize
materials to their fullest potential to reduce textile waste. She believes
everything has the potential, even the tiniest scrap of fabric. She is
contributing a small solution to a big problem by reworking waste into
something new and unique.

Born and raised in the Bay Area she has been into fashion, sewing, and
making things since she was a kid. Her degree in Photography and
background in amplifying the careers of artists with developmental
disabilities have given her a keen eye and an open heart.

“I am passionate about being a part of the fashion industry where
sustainability, fairness, respect for the environment, the supply chain,
and the people who make the clothes are valued. Remake enables
me to do just that!”

Community Organizer, Los Angeles

Angie Folcik

Angie Folcik has spent the last 12 years leading and creating in the luxury interior design marketplace. She joined Remake in 2021 after watching the documentary True Cost and observing in full living color the need for action. So she became a Co-Community Organizer to connect like-minded activists on a mission to cause and create an accountable, equitable, and transparent fashion industry.

Being at the forefront of the Remake movement gives Angie the opportunity to support and foster a growing community seeking meaningful connection and collaboration. By bringing people with big hearts and creative minds together, we can improve the industry socially and ecologically. Angie’s goal is to influence consumers in making informed and educated product choices, of which strike a harmonious balance with their values.

“I live by the mottainai way, a Japanese Buddhist philosophy meaning ‘too good to waste,’ and approach clothing consumption with a minimalist mentality. I only invest in well made, timeless pieces that will flow with my current wardrobe and be cherished for years. I wear my values by taking good care of my clothes and repairing things as needed. What lights me up is giving people the opportunity to participate in workshops that provide tips and tools on extending the life of garments.”

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, 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, 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.

Community Organizer Philadelphia

Emily Henry

Emily Henry is an activist and sustainable fashion designer specializing in upcycling. Born and raised in a small town right outside of the city, Emily is no stranger to the ever-blossoming sustainable fashion scene in Philadelphia. She attended school for fashion design and has been working in the industry ever since. She spreads the importance of living a sustainable lifestyle through her art and work. Emily is excited and honored to be a co-Community Organizer for Remake’s Philadelphia hub! Remake offers a welcoming community and an educational environment unlike any other.

“I am inspired by Remake’s inclusive teachings and its successful activism. My goals as Community Organizer are to connect with other like-minded people in the Philly area and make Remake’s mission accessible to my community.” 

Community Organizer Italy

Debora Florio

Community Organizer London

Sophie Kendall

Sophie is a sustainable fashion advocate who is passionate about climate justice and garment workers rights. With a background in luxury fashion PR she now works in sustainable fashion in social media alongside assisting Orsola de Castro. She is driven to build a strong UK community to fight for change and raise awareness about Remake and other key issues in the industry.

“I believe education is the most important tool and I want to educate as many people as possible from those interested in sustainable fashion to those who shop weekly from fast fashion. I want to empower people to make individual changes, while campaigning for brands and governments to create stronger policies to protect people and planet.”

Community Organizer Washington D.C.

Carly Boerrigter

Carly Boerrigter has worked in history museums across the U.S. in various capacities since leaving her home in southern California in 2013. She has experience researching historic, costume, and textile collections and standardizing museum collection data for local and national institutions.

Carly has been a long-time thrifter, crafter, and lover of clothing, but during the pandemic, she started questioning the impacts her fast fashion purchases had on others – the garment workers making her clothes, the environmental effects of overproduction in the fashion industry, as well as the messaging that motivates consumer purchases. Trying to disentangle herself from this web, she read voraciously about these topics and in the summer of 2022, she discovered Remake. She was so inspired by the vibrance, intellect, and innovation of the Remake community that in October of 2022, she transitioned to a Community Organizer role.

“I love how Remake combines so many of my passions in life: style and fashion, social justice, and increasing the longevity and intrigue of clothes already in my closet through embroidery and mending. This powerful community of changemakers energizes me and makes me feel that all these disparate interests of mine have a home in Remake.”

Community Organizer London

Rebeca Dallmaier

After having closer contact with the devastating exploitation of the fast fashion industry, Rebeca felt the urge to become an agent for change, getting involved with advocacy and activism. She collaborates with grassroots labour rights NGO Awaj Foundation and, after a couple of years as a Remake ambassador, became a community organiser for the UK.

“I love fashion, but I cannot stand the exploitation in the industry. Being part of Remake, a movement that really cares about garment workers and our planet, gives me inspiration, strength and the tools to fight for justice and engage more people to do the same.”

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.

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.

Trust

Martini Education and Opportunity Trust

Brent Martini founded the Martini Education and Opportunity Trust to
provide holistic education opportunities to students and young
business professionals as they lead the transformation of
environmental, social, and governance (ESG) structures worldwide. We
put the “wind in the sails” of our fellows and collaborators in these
areas, currently: financial inclusion, sustainable fashion,
collaborative leadership, sustainable development, changemaker
education and design for equity.

Foundation

United Nations Foundation

The UN Foundation was founded in 1998 by entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner to support the UN and serve as a strategic partner and resource for the UN in solving global problems. Ted’s goals in establishing the Foundation were to demonstrate the value of investing in the UN, encourage new partners to work with the UN, and promote strong U.S. leadership at the UN.

In our first 20 years, the Foundation mobilized over $2 billion, numerous initiatives, and countless partners to support the UN and UN causes. This support helped the UN pioneer work in areas we all now take for granted, from supporting elections to the rights of adolescent girls to our shared interest in a clean energy future for all.

Today, the Foundation focuses on mobilizing ideas, people, and resources to help the UN tackle some of the greatest collective action challenges of our time, including scaled collaboration to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the promise of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Foundation

Laudes Foundation

Foundation

Pincus Foundation

PFF is driven by the values that our founders David and Gerry Pincus lived by: “to get involved, not just think about your own life, you are supposed to do things for other people.”

Today, the second and third generation of Pincus Family members have added their ethos, while keeping the founders’ legacy alive.

Trust

Sigrid Rausing Trust

The Sigrid Rausing Trust is a grant-making foundation established in 1995.

The Trust runs ten grant-making programmes, organised under three themes: human rights; fairness and inclusion and the environment. In addition, we make occasional grants in other fields, including medical and humanities research.

Foundation

The Cordes Foundation

The Cordes Foundation’s mission is to connect social entrepreneurs with the resources they need, convene events to strengthen the ecosystems of impact investing and social entrepreneurship and catalyze 100% of our balance sheet for impact.

The Foundation was founded in 2006 by Ron and Marty Cordes. Following the sale of Ron’s investment management business, the couple blended Ron’s experience in financial services with Marty’s work on issues that affect women and girls to create a family foundation focused on social entrepreneurship, impact investing and the economic advancement of women. In 2014, when they were joined by their daughter, Steph, and son-in-law, Eric Stephenson, the Foundation expanded its strategic focus to include ethical fashion brands, sustainable supply chains and engaging millennials in impact investing.

Entrepreneur

Christina Bullock

Christina has a background in marketing, design and sustainability and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her two young children and husband. She is passionate for the environment and is a trained Climate Reality Project Leader. She also cares deeply for human rights and women’s issues. She is currently working on starting an ethical and sustainable shoe company for women. Through her philanthropy and work, she hopes to help move to a more just, ethical and sustainable world for current and future generations.

Foundation

Susie T Buell Foundation

The Susie T Buell Foundation’s aim is to support women & girls in public service and civic engagement, leaders and doers on the frontlines of the climate catastrophe, and forward-thinking visionaries who drive communities toward awakening and transformation.