Speaker Profile

As Monash Sustainable Development Institute's Circular Economy Transitions, Strategic Projects Manager, Aleasha works in a transdisciplinary capacity between MSDI and faculty-based colleagues across Monash, building and managing partnerships with external academic, industry and government stakeholders to achieve program outcomes in advancing the transition to a circular economy in Australia. In 2019, Aleasha and colleagues co-founded a Circular Economy Textiles research project focused on the transition of the textile, clothing and footwear (TCF) industry in Australia to a circular economy model. Alongside her industry experience, Aleasha holds a Master of Fashion (Entrepreneurship) from RMIT and a Bachelor's of Home Economics, Agricultural Sciences (Consumer Textiles) from UBC. Aleasha's career encompasses fashion retail and operations management, buying, styling and sustainable fashion design, alongside teaching. She sees the collective interdisciplinary expertise and capability as critical to tackling the sustainability challenges facing the global textiles sector.