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      <image:caption>Teju is a Jamaican-American multihyphenate from Oakland. She is currently exploring how our identity and values can be the catalyst to design spaces (and products) that are beautiful, functional and environmentally intentional. A nomad at heart— her work unearths the environmental, cultural, economic, and urban connections that shape our material realities. Teju is founder and ecosystems director of the global collective: Black Fiber &amp; Textile Network. She is the creator / host of the Black Material Geographies podcast, and is a 2025 Center for Craft Archive Fellow. Teju has worked with an array of institutions, including as a member of the United Nations Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network, and as a cultural ambassador to the United States Embassy of Botswana. She has spoken at Smithsonian’s Design Museum Cooper Hewitt—and at several academic institutions including Princeton University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Iceland, Reykjavik. Teju’s focus includes regenerative fiber and fashion systems, climate justice and adaptation, mapping Black relationships to our environment, supporting farmers of the global majority, and culturally responsive economic alternatives. She supports people who are mapping / making alternative futures She likes water, music &amp; dancing, soccer and reading books. Teju is based between Mvskoke (Atlanta, Georgia) and Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, New York)—and goes wherever else she is called.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Teju is founder and ecosystems director of the Black Fiber &amp; Textile Network (bftn). She is the creator / host of the Black Material Geographies podcast, and a 2025 Center for Craft Archive Fellow. Teju’s work centers climate, cultural, and distributive justice by supporting regenerative practices and collaboration. She uses a global lens focusing on local and regional strategies that produce alternative economies at community-scale. Teju strategizes on how we can create / design / consume the things that make up our daily lives and environments in ways that are generative for the earth and each other. She spends her time designing spaces, doing speaking engagements, and co-creating with members of bftn.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-30</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Press and Mentions - WURD Radio Interview</image:title>
      <image:caption>Listen to this live WURD Radio Interview with Tiffany Bacon. WURD radio is the only African-American owned and operated talk radio station in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Teju joined Tiffany’s Midday Breakroom room show to discuss sustainability as Black culture and how we can consume textiles / clothes more consciously.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Press and Mentions - Teju Adisa-Farrar: Weaving a Black Textile Renaissance From Roots to Reclamation</image:title>
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      <image:title>Press and Mentions - Announcing the 2025 Center for Craft Archive Fellows</image:title>
      <image:caption>The recipients of the Center for Craft’s 2025 Craft Archive Fellowship</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Press and Mentions - Next Economy Now Podcast</image:title>
      <image:caption>Transforming the economy is central to achieving social and environmental justice, but what needs to change? How can this be achieved? To help us answer these questions is Teju Adisa-Farrar, a connector, environmental consultant, and geographer who is on a mission to change the fashion industry in a way that achieves social and environmental justice. Click here to learn more and listen!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Press and Mentions - The Sidebar: A Production of the New York Association of Black Journalists</image:title>
      <image:caption>Conscious Fashion Campaign September honoree, TEJU ADISA-FARRAR (writer, geographer, researcher connector) talks about her passion for sustainability and environmental equity. Teju also offers tips for all of us to do our part to create change in our own everyday lives. Click here to listen!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Press and Mentions - Eight Women Entrepreneurs on Making Fashion With Impact</image:title>
      <image:caption>Some of the female entrepreneurs creating fashion with impact be it through repairs, disability awareness or artisan rights. Read more here.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Press and Mentions - Who Made September 2022 Conscious Fashion Campaign Honoree A-List</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Conscious Fashion Campaign is conducted by the Fashion Impact Fund in collaboration with the United Nations Partnership Office and the PVBLIC Foundation. Announced on Monday, the new winners’ cohort will be paraded in September of this year for New York Fashion Week. The roundup includes Teju Adisa-Farrar, environmental equity consultant and independent researcher… Read here.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Read more and watch Teju’s Copenhagen Fashion Summit speech on ‘Collective Prosperity in the Fashion Industry’ here.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Press and Mentions - E71: Racism Is An Environmental Issue with Teju Adisa-Farrar</image:title>
      <image:caption>Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean, or wherever you get your podcasts!</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Press and Mentions - Thanks to Climate Change, Sperm Is Declining and Penises Are Shrinking</image:title>
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      <image:title>Press and Mentions - Soil to Soil Podcast Ep. 8: How Can Fibersheds Shape Alternative Futures? with Teju Adisa-Farrar</image:title>
      <image:caption>Listen to it here.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Press and Mentions - Slow Factory Teams With Adidas And Stella McCartney On Paid Apprenticeships With Free Online BIPOC Course</image:title>
      <image:caption>Read it on Forbes</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Press and Mentions - Teju Adisa-Farrar: The Spirit of Sustainable Futures</image:title>
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      <image:title>Press and Mentions - We Are the Weavers: In Conversation with Teju Adisa-Farrar</image:title>
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      <image:title>Press and Mentions - What is an Activist? Interviews with Teju Adisa-Farrar, Solonje Burnett, Bonnie Wright</image:title>
      <image:caption>Read it on Meow Meow tweet blog</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Listen on For the Wild Podcast</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Press and Mentions - In Conversation With Teju Adisa-Farrar</image:title>
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      <image:title>We Represent Us x Seed2Shirt - We Represent Us Limited Edition T-shirt Line</image:title>
      <image:caption>On June 7, 2021, Seed2Shirt and I launched We Represent Us. It is a limited edition sustainable t-shirt line produced through an all Black diaspora supply chain. This t-shirt line is: •made fron organic small batch cotton grown by farmers in Burkina Faso •sewn and processed at a carbon nuetral facility in Kenya •printed by a Black woman owned shop in Georgia @sheprints.it •with four designs by Black national &amp; international artists @gocosmicninja @sagestargate @deevine.love @neals We Represent Us is a reclaiming of cotton and sustainability. A celebration of Black art and heritage. A reminder that we can and are doing things differently now; trying to support alternative supply chains.</image:caption>
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