Kisook Suh is a textile conservator who has worked for The Metropolitan Museum of Art since 2006. During the pandemic, she expanded her practice of repairing her family’s well-loved clothes and shared her thoughts on repair and restoration through The Met’s podcast series, Frame of Mind: Mending Hope. This experience with public exposure taught her the idea of activism in a more relatable way. Soon after the pandemic, she joined the local community group, Rivertowns Repair Café, where she volunteers as a repair coach or fixer. She tries to teach people simple mending techniques with needles and threads while fixing various things brought to the Repair Cafe, from a quilted blanket to a teddy bear.