SASHA DUERR is a Bay Area textile artist and designer working with biodiversity and reviving seasonal and local plant-based color. She is the founder of Permacouture Institute, an educational non-profit supporting regenerative design for fashion and textiles based in San Francisco, California. Sasha is the author of The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes (Timber Press), and is a professor at the California College of the Arts where she develops curriculum in the intersection between slow textiles and social practice. Her work has been featured in American Craft Magazine, The Huffington Post, and The New York Times.