Tesia Thomas

is a young inventor and activist who is fed up with government and corporate doublethink and hypocrisy related to renewing manufacturing in America, inspiring females and minorities to innovate, and otherwise saying and not doing. She plans to keep the ‘groundbreaking garage inventor’ persona alive for another generation despite government, corporate, and academic desires to quell it as a myth and crush indie inventors with asinine laws and outright corruption. She is the founder of Zipr Shift (ziprshift.com) and creator of the third zipper ever – the exact closure technology that the military has been looking for since the end of WWII in order to seal chem/bio gear. As such, Tesia strives to tackle problems many decades older than her and might continue to reveal her solutions so long as US patent laws are strengthened to adequately protect those solutions as her private property.