Laura Sansone is a textile designer, activist, and consultant. She is the creator of New York Textile Lab, a design and consulting company that supports environmentally responsible textile methods, and regional systems of production. Laura is currently a Part-Time Assistant Professor of Textiles at Parsons School of Design and one of the Founding members of the New York Fibershed. She has developed initiatives that bring NY designers and farmers together with the goal of creating a decentralized, regenerative textile supply network. She is the founder of the Carbon Farm Network, a purchasing cooperative that connects designers to Climate BeneficialTM fibers that are grown on NYS farms practicing Carbon Farming on their lands. In addition, she has designed woven textiles for the following companies: Maharam, New York, NY, American Silk Mills, New York, NY and Burlington House Fabrics, New York, NY.