Laura Zander is the cofounder and co-owner of Jimmy Beans Wool (jimmybeanswool.com), which was named by Inc. magazine as one of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the US for four years (2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012), and is the first official yarn supplier to the US. Olympic Snowboarding and Freeskiing teams for the 2014 Olympics. Zander was named one of ten national winners of Ernst & Young's Entrepreneurial Winning Women for 2011. She is also the author of Knit Red and Sew Red (both Sixth & Spring), which she conceived as part of her Stitch Red initiative to support The Heart TruthR Foundation to raise awareness and funds to fight heart disease.
