Our project has been going amazing! We have our workshops and curriculum planned out and some promising leads in schools to be able to go visit them in the next month. After attending the earth day festival, which was amazing, we got to meet so many people and do a trial run of one of our activities. We also got extremely crucial feedback about the need for our project and the impact we had on people’s fashion habits. Over the past few weeks I’ve made so much progress in this project and...

What project are you moving forward with right now? I’m moving forward with a project that seeks to increase climate literacy through the garment industry by bringing educational resources to bay area schools. Who is your mentor and what are your initial impressions? My mentor is Avalon Wood! We both have a passion for climate literacy and increasing climate education, especially through in class lessons and have both done similar work around that in the past. As we continue to work together...

Bio: I’m Sasha, a sophomore at El Cerrito High School, who’s driven to address the immense environmental impacts of the garment industry, and is passionate about biotechnology and policy writing. I run an initiative called Fashion’s Facade that promotes industry transparency education throughout my community and am a Researcher with the UC Berkeley sustainable internet lab where I research biomaterials and how they contend with other garments. I like to sew and alter clothes, dance, or figure...