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University of Utah panel urges wider access to sustainable fashion, highlights campus free-thrift sites
Summary
Students, campus advocates and a local designer at a Hinckley Institute Earth Month forum discussed how to make sustainable fashion more affordable and equitable, urged corporate and policy changes to cut waste, and described multiple free-thrift locations and donation procedures on campus.
A University of Utah forum hosted by the Hinckley Institute of Politics on Earth Month explored how fashion, sustainability and climate justice intersect and what students and institutions can do to reduce waste and expand access.
Brady Dunn, the event moderator and a junior and third-year intern with the Office for Sustainability Education, opened the panel and framed the conversation around the 2026 theme “sustainability is always in fashion.” Panelists introduced themselves and described practical and policy approaches to slowing fast fashion’s environmental and social harms.
Panelists — including K. Roberts, a sophomore who works for Depot on campus; Drew Holton of local apparel brand Beehive Threads; Kai Gaul, a case coordinator…
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