DOMENICA PETERSON
Chief Visionary Officer & Co-Founder
Domenica’s professional career has focused on using fashion as a tool to solve global problems and she has worked with industry leaders in Fair Trade Fashion. She has led social entrepreneurship organizations, coordinated international aid projects and worked for the U.S. based Fair Trade pioneer TransFairUSA on the first certification standard for Fair Trade apparel and textiles in the US. She worked in London doing public relations for the Fair Trade Fashion label PeopleTree and in Brussels sewing for the couture fashion label NATAN. In addition to GATF, Domenica serves on the SF Global Green Committee and is a contributing writer for Coco Eco Magazine.
MELISSA HOOK
Research Manager
Melissa recently graduated from San Francisco State with a degree in Fashion Merchandising with a Marketing minor with an emphasis in Environmental Studies. She joined Global Action Through Fashion to learn and provide insight on textiles and environmental business consulting. Melissa currently works as a associate buyer at Crossroads Trading Company. She has also worked in the industry as a sales representative and fashion consultant, and loves to sew and produce designs made of recycled or discarded materials.
LAURA RUSSELL
Research Associate & UK Representative
Laura’s interest in ethical fashion developed during her study at Nottingham Trent University, England in B.A. Fashion and Textile Management. During an internship with ethical fashion company People Tree she met Domenica and from there became involved with GATF. Laura’s thesis explored how fair trade fashion in particular could be adopted by mainstream fashion companies. Laura enjoys dress making and crafting items from reclaimed and recycled materials.
AIMEE JACOT
Research Associate
Aimee is currently pursuing her MBA degree at San Francisco State University, with an emphasis in Decision Science and Sustainability. Her interest in ethical fashion stems from a lifelong passion for clean, green, and sustainable living. Her background is in mathematics and physics, and her long term goal is to use her technical and business background to develop sustainable supply chains for companies pursuing clean and renewable energy technologies.
KESTREL JENKINS
PR & Research Associate
Whether the driving force was language or fashion, Kestrel’s interest in global issues has led her around the world. She worked as a journalist with El Diario Austral in Chile, did PR for People Tree in London, and taught English to elementary students in Madrid, Spain. She found all of her interests collide in Fair Trade Fashion, where her energy and spirit inspire a thirst to understand more and more about the field. She currently works for Inhabitat.com has a B.A. from Hamline University in Global Studies, International Journalism, and Spanish. Don’t miss her fantastic blog Make Fashion Fair!
ADELE REEVES
Graphic Designer
Adele is passionate about art and Japanese culture. A recent graduate of Ohio State University with a major in Japanese language and a fine art minor, Adele works as a freelance graphic designer. She is also an amazing seamstress and has played a major role at our events, especially at our T-shirt Reconstruction Eventand How to Make it Eco. Watch out for her wallet line made of recycled materials and her Japanese Anime artwork.
