Kate Sekules is a writer, historian, teacher, and lifelong mender. Kate is a professor of fashion history at Pratt Institute, she also teaches her class "Mending Fashion" at Parsons NYC. Her book "MEND! A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto" was published by Penguin in 2020. Kate is currently completing her PhD dissertation 'A History and Theory of Mending' at Bard Graduate Center, New York, after which she will in her own words 'have actually earned the title Dr Mend—my alter ego who dispenses mendication Rx in clothes surgeries'.