Alden Wicker is an award-winning independent journalist and author of To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick — and How We Can Fight Back (Putnam 2023). Founder and editor of the internationally-trusted sustainable fashion and health platform EcoCult.com, she also contributes to publications like the New York Times, Wired, Vogue, Vox, New York Magazine, and more.
She’s made expert appearances on multiple popular NPR shows (including Fresh Air), The Guardian, BBC, Al Jazeera, CBC, and MSNBC, and has been cited by The New York Times, Teen Vogue, as a thought leader and science communicator in sustainability and health.
Her very first Tiktok video has been watched over 1.7 million times.
Several of her investigations and thought leadership pieces have been read millions of times, uncovering fraud and malfeasance, setting the agenda for multinational corporations, and predicting the future on topics including conscious consumerism, multilevel marketing, material sustainability and innovation, green building, and even the future of Burning Man.
Alden has presented to intensive creative-thinking workshops, given the keynote to young future leaders, and moderated panels. Expect fresh thinking and ideas, leading-edge insight into trends and issues in sustainability, and inspiration that you can turn into action – all delivered with a sense of humor and wit.
Alden and her husband, architect and DJ Illich Mujica, split their time between their farmhouse in Vermont and Brooklyn.
