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Publications

Writing is something I do to make sense of my thoughts and cut through all the noise. I self-publish and do commissioned reports and essays.

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Towards a Collective Approach: Rethinking Fashion's Doomed Climate Strategy

Deep dive report co-authored with Elizabeth Cline & Brooke Roberts-Islam for Transformers Foundation

2023

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02

Fashion’s Sustainability Woes: Intention, Inequity, and the Implicit Beliefs Blocking Systemic Transformation

Opinion Essay

2024

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03

Supplier Meet-Up Reflections

Anonymized notes and reflections from the monthly Supplier Meet-Ups I founded and host for the Asia Garment Hub

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04

The Higg Data Debate: No Room for Context, Imagination, or Co-Creation

Opinion Essay for Transformers Foundation

2022

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WE NEED TO STOP CITING LONG, COMPLEX, SUPPLY CHAINS AS A REASON FOR FASHION'S SUSTAINABILITY WOES

Opinion Essay

2021

HOW TO ENSURE FACTORY WORKERS EARN A DECENT LIVING

Explainer video

2021

CLEANING UP FASHION’S IMPACT REQUIRES MORE INCLUSIVE STANDARDS FOR SUSTAINABILITY STANDARD-SETTING 

Opinion Essay

2023

A MORAL MONOPOLY: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND BULLYING

Opinion Essay

2021

ON PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF WORKERS IN SUBCONTRACTED FACTORIES: HOW ADVOCATES GET IT WRONG

Opinion Essay

2020

BOOHOO AND SUSTAINABLE FASHION'S LANGUAGE PROBLEM

Opinion Essay

2020

COVID 19 & WHY BUYERS MUST ADDRESS PURCHASING PRACTICES

Opinion Essay

2020

HOW RACISM SHAPES FASHION'S APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY

Opinion Essay

2020

50/50: BRANDS NEED TO SHARE IN THE FINANCIAL RISK OF THEIR SUPPLIERS

Opinion Essay

2021

THE BANGLADESH ACCORD IS THE WRONG MODEL FOR LEGAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY

Opinion Essay

2021

WHY ISOLATING LABOR COSTS IS NOT THE KEY TO HIGHER WAGES

Opinion Essay

2021

HOW SINGULAR NARRATIVES OF WORKER-MANAGMENT RELATIONS FAIL US

Opinion Essay

2020

HOW FASHION REVOLUTION'S TRANSPARENCY INDEX ENCOURAGES A CULTURE OF CONTROL

Opinion Essay

2020

THE HIGG DATA DEBATE PART 2: RE-IMAGINING CONSUMERS AS CONVERSATION CHANGERS

Opinion Essay

2022

THREE THINGS ADVOCATES OF MORE ETHICAL PURCHASING PRACTICES SHOULD STOP SAYING

Opinion Essay

2021

AN ALTERNATIVE INTERPRETATION OF DUE DILIGENCE

Opinion Essay

2021

WHY SHARED RISK IS THE KEY TO RADICALLY TRANSFORMING FASHION

Opinion Essay

2020

TAL APPAREL AND SUSTAINABLE FASHION'S LANGUAGE PROBLEM PART 2

Opinion Essay

2020

THE IMPERATIVE OF EQUAL PARTNERSHIP

Opinion Essay

2020

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