Kavita Parmar is a designer, product developer, and the founder of XTANT, a community of artisan makers, and GUNAKAZI, a social network for garment workers. She’s won several awards for innovation, sustainability, and leadership, and consults for clients including Nike and Levi’s.

Dr. Federica Carlotto is a social anthropologist specialising in luxury and fashion. She has provided consumer behavioural insights for brands including Quintessentially, Fortnum & Mason, and Versace. She has appeared as a guest lecturer for SDA Bocconi Asia, Winchester School of Art, and London College of Fashion and has collaborated with consultancies like Roland Berger and Stylus on white papers and intelligence reports. Dr. Carlotto's industry insights have appeared in Elle Canada, la Repubblica, Artribune, Forbes Japan, and The Business of Fashion.

Sara Rosenthal is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and independent researcher from California. With an MA from Central Saint Martins in London, she runs an art space in Athens, Greece, and crafts content for the Textile Society of America. Her writing on sustainable textiles is due to appear in the forthcoming ten-volume Encyclopedia of World Textiles, to be published by Bloomsbury.