KEYNOTE SPEAKER & ACTIVIST | CEO & Founder of Remake | Sustainable Fashion Expert

Ayesha has worked across the public, private, and civil society sectors to promote the rights and dignity of the women who make our clothes. Prior to founding Remake, she led brand engagement at Better Work, a World Bank and United Nations partnership, to ensure safe and decent working conditions in garment factories around the world. Prior to this, she ran the fashion vertical at BSR, providing strategic advice to brands including Levi Strauss and Company, Marks and Spencer, Nike, and the Gucci Group on the design and integration of sustainability into business. She has a master’s degree in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley. She counts both Karachi and San Francisco as her homes, and she is happiest when spending time with the women who bring our fashion to life and amplifying the stories of fashion’s most essential workers.

As a trusted leader in the fashion space, Ayesha has been featured in Vogue’s 2020 September issue as one of 100 people changing the future of fashion, Fast Company’s 2021 List of Creative People in business, and regularly contributes to NPR, Vogue, Business of Fashion, Refinery 29, WWD, NYMag/The Cut, and Sourcing Journal on sustainability, racial equity and justice, human rights, and climate solutions within the fashion space.

With over two decades of leadership, Ayesha founded Remake, to fight for fair pay and climate justice in the fashion industry.

Remake’s work has become instrumental in reshaping the fashion industry for good. Over the last decade, we’ve been able to reduce fashion’s negative environmental impacts on the planet through activations like our #NoNewClothes challenge and increase the wages and wellbeing of those who make our clothes through viral campaigns like #PayUp – the most successful women-led worker rights campaign in the history of the fashion industry.

Major wins include: the renewal and extension of the Bangladesh Accord (now the International Accord for Health and Safety) and the passing of SB62, or The Garment Worker Protection Act to get 45,000 mostly Latinx women paid fairly in California. This year, that win was honored by the United Nation’s Conscious Fashion Campaign during New York Fashion Week.

With interest in the sustainable fashion movement growing by the minute, Remake’s mission is to empower everyday citizens to learn and take action. It’s our duty to make the movement more inclusive and accountable, building coalitions of ethical businesses and conscious citizens to stand in solidarity with garment workers, win campaigns, and pass smart policies.

Videos from past speaking engagements:

• Goodwill’s Inaugural Sustainability Summit Keynote.
• MCON: Millennials for Social Justice in Washington DC
• SXSW: Wear Your Values on Your Sleeve
• HBO’s Brandy Hellville and the Cult of Fast Fashion

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