About Sophia Yang
Sophia is a climate justice change-maker with extensive research and policy experience. She has worked for a dozen environmental organizations ranging from federal government agencies, ENGOs, to industry, and academia. Sophia has received Starfish Canada’s Top 25 Under 25 Environmentalists award in 2017 and 2018, attended the United Nations Climate Change conference twice as a British Columbian Youth Delegate, and DJs in her spare time. Threading Change was born because Sophia wanted to help raise young people’s voices in one of our world’s most polluting industries—the fashion industry. Doing so for our planet, and people.
About the business
Threading Change
Threading Change is an ethical fashion non-profit organization and circular economy consultancy that believes in ethical fashion for people, and for the planet.
They envision a future where fashion is circular, rooted in justice with climate, gender, and racial equity at the forefront.
They do this in three ways, through education in their ‘Textile Talks’ international webinar series, storytelling and visualization through their Global Innovation Story Map, in addition to their research and policy programs at the local, national, and international levels.
