Episode 19: Kristen Albrecht |

Kristen Albrecht’s most recent venture was running Nube, a local sustainable apparel business.  Nube partnered with artists to help create their designs, focusing on recycled materials and being fully US-made.  She recently graduated from Presidio Graduate School with an MBA in sustainable solutions and is now starting a new role heading up sustainability and operations at a textile recycling startup called Ravel.  Outside of work, Kristen lives on a small family farm on Whidbey Island caring for pigs, chickens, and her pup Scuppers.  She is passionate about US-manufacturing, the circular economy, and trying to live a life aligned with her values.

In the wake of the recent decision to close/pause Nube (for now), Kristen and Ruth talk about the challenges they have faced as a small business within the sustainable apparel marketplace.  They discuss how they had to define their own principles of sustainability, the phases and vast lessons they learned through the Nube journey, and the deep desire to positively impact textile infrastructure through circularity.  This conversation gives the listener a vulnerable look into their ongoing emotional processing of Nube’s closure and the hope they have for the future with their next collaborative project, Ravel.

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