work
My work spans textile waste systems, secondhand economies, circular design, field-based research, and creative research through material experimentation. I am interested in how value is retained, transformed, or lost across clothing systems — and in how design can make those systems more legible, critical, and open to intervention.
campus circular textile systems
Research on hyper-local approaches to textile diversion, reuse, recycling, and circular design in higher education with a focus on institutional support, pedagogy, and systems change.
shifting the burden
Research on secondhand clothing sorting, value retention, and textile waste systems across local and transnational contexts.
featured projects
re-assembled: the paper doll coat
Award-winning creative research transforming unsellable garments into a modular, no-sew textile system.
TMU branded materials transition project
Institutional transition project addressing university-branded textile waste through redesign, reuse, and circular material strategies.
fieldwork
Laredo, Texas, USA
Fieldwork documenting secondhand clothing sorting, export operations, and discard flows entering landfill.
Accra, Ghana
Field research examining textile waste accumulation, export dynamics, and the afterlives of secondhand clothing at the end of the line.
longitudinal research
staying with the trouble: sustainably-minded fashion MSEs
Longitudinal research examining how small and micro fashion enterprises navigate sustainability through design, business practice, and everyday constraint.