Brooke Roberts-Islam is an award-winning digital knitwear designer and consultant who recently co-founded the Brooke Roberts Innovation Agency (BRIA). At BRIA, Brooke and her team develop physical and digital materials and design solutions for fashion brands and manufacturers, directly combining her knowledge of the latest developments in the “fashion-tech” sector with her pioneering cross-discipline approach to developing new materials. In addition to her design and materials development work, Brooke is a “fashion-tech” and sustainability writer for Forbes.com, Chaos 69, Eco Age and Techstyler—a publishing platform she founded—sharing opinions and interviews from the crossroads of these sectors.