SFW HUB // TALKS, PANELS, PRESENTATIONS

Abbie Morris is Co-founder and CEO at Compare Ethics. Abbie’s background is in sustainability and political consulting. She has led sustainability and political projects in emerging markets, including a Presidential campaign in West Africa and secured relationships with the United Nations, World Economic Forum and other international organisations.

Abbie is an advocate for ethical and sustainability issues and committed to an equitable transition into the fourth industrial revolution.

Anna is the Advocacy Director for Labour Behind the Label. Labour Behind the Label is the only UK campaign group that focuses exclusively on labour rights in the global garment industry.

They are a workers cooperative based in Bristol. They represent the Clean Clothes Campaign in the UK and work with over 250 partner organisations worldwide through this network. In the UK they work with a variety of partners, such as other NGOs and trade unions, to ensure our campaigns have the greatest impact.

Bel Jacobs is a freelance writer, speaker and activist and was the Style Editor for Metro between 1999 and 2013.

Today, she focuses particularly on animal rights, the climate emergency and the toxic fashion system. She runs two websites, beljacobs.com and HowNow Magazine, both focusing on positive initiatives changing fashion and the wider issues surrounding sustainability.

Jacobs is a coordinator of Extinction Rebellion Fashion Action, the group behind ground-breaking campaigns including Boycott Fashion and Cancel Fashion Week. A new project Fashion Act Now aims to speed up change in the industry, in line with the collective emergency we now face.

Bianca started blogging in 2012 – focusing on food and fashion, but as time progressed, it became apparent that fashion really had her heart.

After years of working with some of the high street’s best, Bianca entered a period of discovery which has led to her interest in slow and conscious fashion. After the success of an event titled Sustainably Influenced in the summer of 2019, Bianca and fellow influencer Charlotte Williams decided to launch a podcast with the same name in 2020 where they discuss how to make more ethical lifestyle choices and how to be more sustainable in all aspects of daily life. Bianca has been featured in Who What Wear, The Times and regularly writes for sustainability magazine, Eco-Age.

Charlotte started a blog in 2010, a travel journal for her friends and family during her year abroad at university. She quickly caught the blogging bug and launched thestylum.com a lifestyle blog that consequently introduced her to the world of influencer marketing.

Fast forward a decade and Charlotte launched SevenSix Agency, influencer marketing agency that truly encompasses her experience in this industry. Charlotte rarely blogs but uses her Instagram and newsletter to help grow female entrepreneurs and small businesses, as well as to promote her sustainability-focused podcast, Sustainably Influenced and share her day-to-day life.

With a background in environmental policy, Delphine is passionate about transforming the fashion industry into a fairer, more equitable and environmentally-conscious sector. Delphine’s work includes the Fashion Transparency Index and focuses on promoting accountability at all levels of the supply chain from a social, economic and environmental perspective.

Previous to working for Fashion Revolution, Delphine worked in sustainability auditing for clients in various sectors as well as sustainability communication for a luxury fashion company.

Emma is the Founder of South West England Fibreshed, Bristol Textile Quarter and co-founder of Bristol Cloth. With an academic background in political and economic anthropology, indigenous rights, natural resource development and conflict, her work over the last 15 years has been at both grassroots and global policy levels.

Happiest with feet on the ground and working in the community, the combined environmental, social and political motivations of the Fibreshed movement marry her intellectual interests with a life long passion for textiles, clothing and artisan products. Emma lives on a 12 acre smallholding with her husband and daughter and keeps Belted Galloway cattle and Golden Guernsey goats.

Jayne is the founder and director of The Charity Retail Consultancy, where, since 2010, she and her team have helped 100s of charities improve their retail offer. In 2021, Jayne and Vicki Burnett joined with The Charity Retail Association to establish Charity Retail Learning.com which has already delivered online click-through courses, webinars and face-to-face training to 100+ charities.

Jayne was an Oxfam shop manager at 21, then worked her way up to national director of retail. She’s won many awards including Woman of the Year at the everywoman in retail awards.

Jayne is passionate about developing all things charity retail, and has a special interest in both innovation and sustainability.

Dr Jenny Goodman qualified at Leeds University Medical School in 1982, and is a member of the British Society for Ecological Medicine. She has specialised in Nutritional and Environmental Medicine for the last 20 years. She has a particular interest in pre-conception care (fertility and making healthy babies), and in working with children.

Jenny has lectured extensively. She ran a case-discussion group for 10 years, where medical and naturopathic/nutritional practitioners share knowledge and clinical experience.

She is the author of “Staying Alive in Toxic Times: A Seasonal Guide to Lifelong Health”, published in Jan 2020 by the Yellow Kite imprint of Hodder & Stoughton.

Katie Brill - former contestant and award winner of Junk Kouture with her design made from orange peel ‘ReJuicing is Appealing’ in 2012 and now part of the JK team as SVP of PR and Communications.

The experience was life-changing for her and helped her build confidence and passion for a more sustainable future.

She is now committed to expand the mission of JK and to inspire/empower more young creatives across the globe.

As the Head of Ratings at Good On You, Hardiman is an environmental scientist with expertise in establishing social and environmental standards. Previously Senior Technical Officer at CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), he has helped hundreds of companies measure their sustainability impacts. Hardiman is currently responsible for the development and implementation of the Good On You brand rating system which assesses over 3,000 global fashion brands for their impact on labour, the environment and animals. He is committed to supporting brands to better understand and improve their sustainability performance.

Rónán Ó Dálaigh is a social entrepreneur and climate activist from Dublin, Ireland. He is a co-founder of Thriftify, the online charity shop, which is aiming to change how, and why, people shop. The platform enables hundreds of charity retailers to sell online, giving the general public easy access to thousands of gems and making charity shopping easy and convenient.

As a climate activist Rónán has been involved in varying direct action campaigns, including a blockade of the Irish Parliament to call for a climate emergency and most recently the Just Stop Oil campaign which disrupted oil refineries across Britain.

Safia Minney, MBE, FRSA, is an award-winning social entrepreneur and internationally recognised for the company she founded, People Tree. She led the business as Global CEO for 20+ years in Japan and Europe. Safia is a leading influencer and international speaker on sustainable business and supply chains, climate action and Fair Trade.

Safia is also an executive coach and mentor, and author of 9 books including; ‘Slave to Fashion’, ‘Slow Fashion - Aesthetics meets Ethics’ and ‘Regenerative Fashion’, out in November 2022.

Safia recently founded Fashion Declares – a bottom-up, industry wide movement to promote rapid action to redesign the fashion industry to operate within planetary boundaries.

Sophie is the Business Development Manager on the Fashion and Textiles team at Soil Association Certification.

Her desire to understand and improve supply chains stems from a practical upbringing spent crafting and sewing with her seamstress mother. The rise of fast fashion led her to consider the health and systemic impacts of the textiles industry and prompted a transition from her systems role within the organic food sector.

Sophie hopes that the slower pace of the past two years will transition into more thoughtful buying practices, with sustainability, circularity, and thriftiness now becoming a real consideration for the British public.

Tamara is a London based consultant, CEO and fashion editor, with renowned experience in brand consultancy, public speaking, writing and styling.

Tamara is also the Founder and CEO of Fashion Roundtable the leading think tank for the fashion industry, which works across events, policy and advocacy for the long-term strategic and sustainable growth of the entire fashion industry in the global marketplace.

Tamara sits on numerous industry and advocacy roundtables across business, the creative industries, public affairs and sustainability, along with being a Commissioner for the UK Trade and Business Commission.

Tansy Hoskins is an award-winning journalist and author. Her award-winning first book Stitched Up – The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion, is available in six languages and was selected by Emma Watson for her ‘Ultimate Book List.’ Her second book, Foot Work – What Your Shoes Are Doing To The World, is an exposé of the dark origins of the shoes on our feet. Her third book - The Anti-Capitalist Book Of Fashion is launching in August 2022.

In June 2021, she won the Freelance Fashion & Beauty Writer Award at the inaugural Freelance Writing Awards.

She lectures across Europe on the politics of the fashion industry at universities, museums, cultural events and political gatherings, and makes regular radio and television appearances, doing the ‘heavy lifting’ for discussions about the workings of the global fashion industry.