Meet our mentors 2025
The 2025 mentors of the Learning Lab are passionate professionals in sustainable fashion, ready to inspire and guide emerging talent.
With hands-on experience and innovative vision, they share knowledge, challenges, and insights that shape career paths, strengthen skills, and broaden perspectives in the industry.
Each mentor serves as a learning role model, fostering creativity and positive impact in fashion.
Rachel Humby: Rachel is a UK-based copywriter, editor, and content consultant with a passion for sustainable storytelling. After a decade in corporate retail, she transitioned towards working with more conscious brands and now combines content strategy, community advocacy and a love of second-hand fashion to inspire meaningful change in the digital fashion space. She also contributes as an editor of all Slow Fashion Movement eBooks, bringing clarity and impact to these educational resources.
Her IG: @preloved__please
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-humby-002bb1109
Liz Mudri is a behaviour-based fashion creative, stylist, learning and behaviour strategist, and social worker, as well as the founder of Fashion Conscious Curator. She contributes as an author to ebooks and blogs for the Slow Fashion Movement. With a passion for merging fashion and behavioural science, Liz explores how clothing influences our emotions, decisions, and social connections, and how understanding these patterns can lead to more mindful and sustainable fashion choices. She will conduct session in: Understanding Fashion Psychology & Behaviour: 7 Key Theories Explained.
Her IG: @fashionconsciouscurator
Puja Mj: Puja is a leading voice in global sustainability, working at the intersection of education, conscious leadership, and systemic reform. As an Executive Board Member for the Slow Fashion Movement (SFM), she spearheads Global Operations and Outreach, utilizing her expertise in strategic partnerships to bridge the gap between grassroots activism and institutional change.
As the founder and Program Director of the Learning Lab, SFM’s educational wing, Puja has established a curriculum rooted in three critical pillars: Fashion Psychology, Global Supply Chain, and Fashion Tech, empowering a global community to move beyond "more is more" consumerism toward a framework of ethics and circularity.
Beyond her operational leadership, Puja is a Conscious Leadership Coach and the writer behind the Substack, The Ethics of Enough. Her storytelling transforms complex climate data into human-centric narratives on ethics and slow living. She blends high-level strategy with grounded advocacy to build a regenerative world and is available for partnerships and collaborations that challenge the status quo.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/puja-nvogue
Jackie May: Jackie May is a South African journalist specializing in in-depth research.
She will lead a masterclass on "Best Practices in Research-Based Journalism," sharing insights and techniques to produce accurate, impactful, and investigative reporting.
Her IG : https://www.instagram.com/jackiemay_sa
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackiemaysa
Aparna Sharma: Aparna Sharma is a writer based in Bangkok, living with her husband and two daughters. Her journey in sustainable fashion began at a young age, driven by a passion for creating clothes from discarded materials. Today, she uses her social media to advocate for second-hand fashion and promote conscious consumption through thrift shopping and clothing swaps. Aparna is also a passionate supporter of artisans and weaving communities, the true backbone of the sustainable fashion movement.
She will lead a masterclass on "Storytelling for Change: Creating Impactful Sustainable Fashion Content."
Dana Zhaxylykova: Dana Zhaxylykova is a microplastics researcher, science communicator, and co-founder of the MicroplasticFree Scanner app. Known online as @dankazh, she creates educational content on environmental issues, focusing on plastic and microplastic pollution. Her work has been featured by the BBC, Daily Mail, and Al Jazeera.
A pioneering researcher and entrepreneur, Dana led the first study on microplastics in Kazakhstan and Central Asia while at Nazarbayev University, with her research later published in the renowned Marine Pollution Bulletin. Recognizing the critical gap between science and the public, she launched her Instagram platform (@dankazh), which quickly grew to over 100,000 followers.
She will lead a session on "Scientific Storytelling: Communicating Research with Clarity and Creativity."
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