Levi Strauss & Co. Collaboratory 2.0 Fellows and Projects

Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) announced it is granting more than $380,000 to the second class of LS&Co. Collaboratory fellows who are working to create a more sustainable apparel industry," the Levi STrauss & Co. press release stated. 

Collaboratory 2.0 Fellows and Projects

The selected fellows are listed below, in alphabetical order, along with brief descriptions of their projects:

• Christina Dean, Co-Founder & CEO of The R Collective (Hong Kong)The R Collective is an upcycled fashion brand that rescues brands' excess fabrics to create beautiful clothes designed by award-winning sustainable designers to raise funds for Redress
• Ali El Idrissi, Founder & CEO of UpChoose (San Francisco, CA)UpChoose is a sustainable consumption platform that designs smarter services for key life moments, starting with a circular baby wardrobe solution through which new parents receive curated sets of organic clothing essentials at each phase of a baby's growth and send them back after use.
• Ashley Etling, CEO & Co-Founder of LimeLoop (Emeryville, CA)LimeLoop is reinventing the way goods are sent and received via a full-circle shipper solution and sensor-driven platform.
• Amanda Grogan, Founder of Make It Black (New York, NY)Make It Black is an overdye re-manufacturer that collaborates with brands to transform pre- and post-consumer waste clothing into new by making it black. Make It Black is developing a circular garment overdye technology.
• Eleazar Guevara, Co-Founder of Novabori (Txacala, Mexico)Novabori is a B2B company that works with brands to develop eco-friendly fabrics from recycled materials such as cotton, polyester, wool, and acrylics.
• Molly Hemstreet, Co-Founder, The Industrial Commons/Opportunity Threads (Morganton, NC)The Industrial Commons provides educational tools for frontline textile workers responsible for implementing the local circular economy. This project is calling special attention to the importance of workers’ role in the circular economy and engaging them in the tool development process.
• Marianne Hughes, Founder and CEO of GetKno (London, England)GetKno is the world’s first real-time transparency platform – for brands, factories and workers – verifying worker happiness and pay and giving workers a voice 24/7.
• Ryan Huston, Founder & General Manager of Huston Textile Company (Mather, CA)Family-owned and operated business since 2013, Huston Textile makes high-quality fabrics sourced from domestic sustainable, organic, and climate beneficial fibers
• Isaac Nichelson, Co-Founder of Circular Systems (Los Angeles, CA)Circular Systems is a new materials startup that is developing innovative circular and regenerative technologies.
• Ann Runnel, Founder of Reverse Resources (Talinn, Estonia)Reverse Resources has built a software-as-a-service platform for garment factories and textile waste recyclers to trade and trace waste end-to-end.
• Kushagra Srivastava, CEO of Chakr Innovation (Gurgaon, India)Chakr Innovation is a three-year old startup that developed a technology to capture particulate matter emissions from diesel generators and convert it into inks and paints.

Source: Levi Strauss & Co.