Yolita Wildman Nugent is an apparel engineer, entrepreneur and researcher of advanced clothing systems including wearable electronics. She has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Apparel Design. She has worked professionally in the apparel industry and in production since 1997. Her interest in technology eventually led her to work on many wearable and textile sensing applications developing out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Some of this work transitioned to the Department of Defense where she spent several years working on advanced soldier systems and individual...Read more
