NO Fashionista! Podcast

“produced by IN JOY Vintage”

Dr. Lee Ann Teal -Rutkovsky

Dr. LeeAnn Teal-Rutkovsky is a researcher, strategist, and interdisciplinary thought leader working at the intersection of sustainable fashion, Indigenous governance, creative economies, and systems innovation. Her work challenges dominant Global North narratives in sustainability and reframes cultural production, resource use, and ecological responsibility through Indigenous-led knowledge systems and post-extractive governance frameworks. She is the Founder and CEO of IMPACT Fashion Hub, a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to ethical global textile futures, regenerative creative economies, and cultural sovereignty in design.

Loes van Dijk

Founder of Climate Court
Opening Keynote Speaker Loes van Dijk

Climate Change Journalist – ESG Litigation – Climate Justice – UCL LLM in Corporate Law

Loes is a forward-thinking legal professional with an LLM in corporate law. While working as an independent legal consultant, Loes identified two critical issues: inconsistent reporting on global climate litigation and companies struggling to grasp its impact and meaning. This fuelled her creation of Climate Court, an initiative providing comprehensive and straightforward reporting on global climate litigation and environmental regulation.

Loes further assists lawyers by consulting on (early-stage) litigation, strengthening their fight for environmental justice. Driven by a steadfast commitment to sustainability, human rights, and legal innovation, Loes is a catalyst for positive change in corporate practices and legal discourse.

– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loes-van-dijk-24a676107/

– Website: www.climate-court.com

Lars Fogh Mortensen

Circular Economy, Consumption and Production Expert

European Environment Agency (EEA)

Lars Fogh Mortensen leads the work of the European Environment Agency textiles, fashion and plastics in Europe’s circular economy – and is the author of many EEA reports and briefings on those topics.

He is a trained economist from the University of Copenhagen and has over 20 years of experience on sustainability – focusing on sustainable consumption and production and circular economy – in international organizations, including the EEA, OECD and the UN. Lars has written and co-written a large number of reports and articles on sustainability and circular economy, in recent years with a focus on textiles, plastics, consumption and wellbeing. He has focused much of his work on the environmental impacts of consumption, and most recently on potentials for a circular economy through circular business models and policies, with a particular focus on textiles and plastics.

Nina Gbor

Nina skills and expertise vary from Circular Economy Policy & Systems Change I Sustainable Fashion Educator I Speaker I Guest Lecturer I Clothes Swap Host I Eco Stylist

Founder of ECO STYLE https://www.ecostyles.com.au/

And SWAP in the City

Nina Gbor is the Director of the Circular Economy & Waste Program at The Australia Institute. She was featured in season 3 of ABC TV’s award-winning environmental series, War on Waste. Nina was also an impact consultant on the War on Waste tv show.

Nina has a master’s degree in International Development and guest lectures at universities in Australia and abroad. She designs and runs programs, short courses and workshops for universities and other institutions. She is the founder of Clothes Swap & Style and has been hosting clothes swaps for over 13 years. Nina coined the phrase ‘get off the fashion TRENDmill’ as a notion to help create a more holistic circular textiles system and support people in embracing sustainable personal style instead of following fleeting fashion trends that contribute to the massive textile waste crisis.

Constance Jeffreys

Constance Jeffreys – Knowlege Exchange Associate at the Centre of Sustainable Fashion.

In her role Constance works as part of the Knowledge Exchange team, collaborating with educators, researchers, and the fashion industry to pursue alternative practices and systems that create a more just and equitable environment. Constance takes an intersectional and anthropological approach to co-create meaningful projects within sustainability, with some of the biggest high street and luxury brands. Since entering the industry Constance has worked with a wide variety of national and international company’s including iconic Danish brands and organisations, such as Soulland and Copenhagen Fashion Week. In 2020 Constance was named a new gen voice at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit due to her work in the field and having previously contributed to the summit in 2016 and 2017.

Riikka Olli

We are living through an economic transition, yet many conversations about money still treat spending, saving and investing as neutral, individual choices. I don’t see it that way. Money is infrastructure : it shapes incentives, behaviour and the futures we collectively build.

My work sits at the intersection of money, wealth and economic transition. I work with founders and investors navigating this shift, and I co-lead The Wealth Within Her, a platform exploring how our relationship with money — shaped by mindset, conditioning and lived experience — influences both personal agency and wider economic outcomes.

My perspective is shaped by a career spanning international tech and payments, founder and operator experience in circular business models, and being close to early-stage ventures. Across these roles, I’ve seen how often the missing piece in impact-driven work is not intention, but how money (and growth) is designed, allocated and understood.

Within The Wealth Within Her, we combine inner work on money beliefs and self-worth with practical frameworks for conscious spending and investing. My own focus centres on conscious money as a systemic lever — how everyday financial decisions act as quiet votes for the kind of economy and society we want to support.

I write and speak about money, business models and transition, often drawing on real companies and lived experience rather than theory. If you’re working at the intersection of money, values and long-term change — as a founder, investor or curious professional — you’re very welcome to follow along or connect.