Stijntje Jaspers – Use what we have and what we grow!

Stijntje Jaspers is passionate about textiles. After studying fashion design, she worked for more than 25 years in creative management positions for various internationally operating textile and fashion brands. She decided to leave end 2016, realizing that this sector plays a major role in climate change. In 2021, she founded the Fibershed Netherlands foundation together with Martine Nieuwenhuis. As programme director, she initiates pre-competitive collaborations in the transition to a local, social, and nature-positive textile system.