OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

CHIARA PUPPI

DIRECTOR

Chiara moved to Edinburgh in 2012 from Italy, where she learned to sew from her mother who is a passionate seamstress. She started as a project coordinator with the Welcoming Association - before Remode was established as an independent entity - and she is currently Executive Director of the social enterprise.

With a background in development studies, Chiara has been working in climate change and social integration in Edinburgh for the last 5 years. She is passionate about climate change, loves sewing and fascinated by multicultural diversity.

Chiara is a fellow student of the School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE). She was awarded a Social Entrepreneurs Start Up Grant in 2017-2018.

email: info@remodecollective.com

MONIKA FEJES

OPERATION MANAGER, DIRECTOR

Monika is a teacher, designer and artist with a passion for textiles and fashion.

Originally from Hungary, Monika arrived in Edinburgh with her family in 2016 with the idea of making Scotland her new permanent home. She started working as a freelancer for Remode Collective in May 2018 and since then she has become a key member of the team looking after our products’ design and execution, and the organisation and delivery of workshops and classes.

email: monika@remodecollective.com

Anna-Katharina Farnleitner

DIRECTOR

Anna-Katharina is an Austrian-trained and raised seamstress who attended a vocational high school in Vienna before moving to Edinburgh to study Costume Design and Construction at Queen Margaret University. Following her BA degree, she completed an MA at the University of Brighton before returning to Scotland to pursue further costume, dressmaking, teaching and dress history research work. She loves undertaking elaborate, historically inspired dressmaking projects which allow her to go on research deep dives into dress history and has extensive experience working for and with theatres, fashion houses, and museums as a freelancer, volunteer and employee. She joined the Remode Collective’s as a teacher in August 2024 and it's Board of Directors in June 2025.

Dr. Tamara Mulherin

DIRECTOR

Tamara grew up in Australia and arrived in Edinburgh in 2008 — initially for work, and then, as so often happens, she simply never left. By day, Tamara is an Assistant Professor at the Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, teaching management and organisational studies. and researching public services, especially health and social care. But thread, fabric, and making have been woven into her intellectual life too — quite literally. Her PhD, completed at the University of Edinburgh, used textile metaphors as both an analytical framework and a way of writing. Her thesis explored the messy, human work of stitching together Scotland's health and social care services, and textiles gave her the language to do it.

Before academia, Tamara spent more than two decades working across health, social care, housing, and community development in Australia and Scotland — always in the spaces where organisations and people have to find ways to work together across difference. When she has the time, she sews, crochets, embroiders, book binds, and felts, making and repairing things for herself and others.

At Remode, she brings that same instinct for connection, along with a genuine love of making. She is drawn to the Remode's ethos of sustainability, community, and the politics of repair — the idea that mending things, whether systems or garments, is always worth the effort.

The team

Our small but dedicated team includes around five experienced sewing tutors, two skilled seamstresses, a social media manager, and a business adviser and fundraiser. Together with our wonderful volunteers, they create a welcoming, supportive environment that makes everything we do possible.