Creating Sustainable Fashion

Jinali Mody ’23 MEM founder and CEO of Banofi Leather, is reducing the environmental impacts from fashion with plant-based leather made from crop waste. “Solving the climate crisis requires concerted efforts across all industries and not just energy, transportation, and carbon capture. Building a sustainable fashion industry is the need of the hour,” Mody said. 

Mody received the 2025 Young Champions of the Earth award from the UN Environment Programme and American cleantech CEO Chris Kemper in September 2025. Award recipients receive seed funding, mentoring, communications support, and a global platform to showcase and scale their solutions.