Who We Are
Krystle Moody Wood
Krystle Moody Wood is the founder and principal consultant of Materevolve, LLC. After almost a decade of corporate materials and product development and working in non-profit education, Krystle found she could best pursue her passion for sustainability, textiles and adventure by starting her own business (Materevolve!) focused on providing brands and materials innovators with technical textile consulting and inspirational educational experiences. Since it’s inception in 2018, Materevolve has expanded it’s client base beyond textile industry and material innovators to aiding both non-profits and government agencies like NOAA’s Marine Debris Program and the US Environmental Protection Agency in education, multi-sector stakeholder engagement and solution building.
From 2015-2019, Krystle served as chair of the Sustainability pillar of the California chapter of AATCC supporting California textile professionals by designing unique educational programs and networking events across the state of California. In 2018-2019, Krystle co-led the curation, execution and moderation of a 3 day conference in Oct 2019 titled “Resilient Textiles Systems: Through the Lens of Soil and Sea.”
Prior to Materevolve, Krystle served as Materials Manager of the bay area non-profit Fibershed. In this role, Krystle acted as the prime liaison for brands and artisans interested in developing regional and regenerative fiber systems across the US. Working directly with fine fiber producers of wool, alpaca, and cotton, Krystle redefined textile economies with a focus on bringing value back to ranchers & farmers and creating a business model that supported the implementation of carbon farm plans. Some of the successful projects that came from this work include: the Community Supported Cloth and The North Face’s Cali Wool Collection.
As Materials Researcher of the VF Apparel Innovation Center, Krystle led the research and development of many sustainable innovation platforms for VF portfolio brands that included new materials, waterless textile processing technologies, green chemistry. She also contributed to her first patent. While at The North Face, Krystle mastered technical knits & wovens as Materials Developer for the performance and snowsports category and as Advanced Materials Researcher, drove many sustainable product and materials initiatives. This included revamping icons like the Denali with significant energy, water and chemical savings, and spearheading the Backyard Project- a locally made, sustainable California cotton hoodie.
Krystle currently participates on both the San Francisco Bay Microplastics Policy Advisory Committee and the AATCC RA100 committee developing the test method for fiber release in textiles. She also has served as the co-chair of the AATCC Young Professionals Committee and won a Future Leaders Award. Krystle earned her Bachelor’s of Science in Textile Science from the University of California at Davis.
Carolynn Box
Carolynn is an environmental consultant, with 20 years of ocean conservation experience, with the last 10 years dedicated to plastic pollution. Carolynn has been working with Materevolve since 2020 on microfiber pollution related projects, including the NOAA California Microfiber Workshop: Science, Innovation and Connection, the Building Regional Textiles Systems for Healthy Soils and Healthy Seas Sail with Fibershed, and, most recently, the development of the SOS 2.0 Report on Microfiber Pollution.
Carolynn has traveled more than 25,000 miles researching microplastics on Ocean Expeditions with 5 Gyres. She received a Master’s from the University of Rhode Island in Marine Affairs in 2005 and worked in the field of Coastal Management for seven years in San Francisco Bay. After her first 5 Gyres Voyage in 2011, a 33-day trip across the South Atlantic Gyre, she decided to change the course of her life and apply her science and organizing background to efforts to fight plastic pollution. Carolynn has participated on 10 Ocean Expeditions, with the Expedition Leader role on many of them. Carolynn was happy to bring her passion and experience to her backyard where she lead up the policy process that was built into the San Francisco Bay Microplastics Project, along with being part of project development, design, fieldwork, and analysis.
Carolynn also addresses the issue of plastic pollution through her small plastic free lifestyle company, Goods Holding Company, that she co-founded in 2017. In 2020, Carolynn and colleagues in the Bay Area established the California Reuse Collective, a network of companies focused on building reuse systems in the Bay Area.
For more about Carolynn’s work outside of Materevolve, including her Ocean Connector Program, at https://www.carolynnbox.com/.