Skilled Laborers Brigade was founded in 2020 by Shannon O’Hara, Rachel Kibbe, and Annie Keating, veterans of the fashion and sustainability spaces, as a response to supporting those in need of PPE on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. The founders immediately recognized the problem was much larger than just the need for masks and gowns and expanded its model to include all apparel manufacturing, including Paskho Community-Made. Leveraging a unique hybrid work-from-home domestic manufacturing process, SLB employs 500+ highly skilled garment workers and factories, who work under safe conditions. SLB is rethinking apparel manufacturing from the start; their goal is to employ more people, at fair-wages, and to manufacture sustainably.