helping women discover their inner truth and align it with their outer expression by expanding access to resources and quality clothing.
where it started
The summer Salina spent mentoring incarcerated young women through Fully Liberated Youth changed everything. She watched them use creative expression and clothing as a form of reclamation, a way of insisting on their own dignity and identity against systems designed to erase it. It was the most honest relationship between a woman and her self-expression she had ever witnessed.
It also held up a mirror. Back at UC Berkeley, she realized she had been living her own version of the same quiet bondage: performing, achieving, showing up exactly as expected, and slowly losing herself in it. She stopped performing and started studying. Herself first, then the women around her. What she found was that the way a woman dresses is rarely just about clothes, it's about permission. Permission to be seen, to take up space, to say this is who I am before she's spoken a word. And yet clothing made with a woman's actual body and inner life in mind was nearly impossible to find at a price that didn't exclude most women entirely.
She left that summer with a commitment: to build her way into the creative industry not just to create, but to give the most talented women, those with the most to say and the fewest resources to say it, a platform.
what i’m building
Salina is now getting her hands into every part of the creative process — design, styling, direction, strategy — learning the craft from the inside out. As a founding team member at both Stoic LA and Vintyj Kreations, she works under the close mentorship of professional athlete and entrepreneur Jamia Fields, helping translate an early vision into a brand that actually reaches people: building go-to-market launches, shaping visual identity, producing events where women show up and feel something. At Aritzia, she is in the fitting room daily — listening, observing, learning exactly how a woman's relationship with clothing shifts when someone pays real attention to her body and her life.
At UC Berkeley, she leads creative direction and styling for FAST, the largest fashion show in the Bay Area, collaborating with houses like Viktor & Rolf and independent creatives who are doing the work on their own terms. As President of her campus organization, she has secured over $1.7 million in institutional funding — proof that she knows how to build a case for communities that deserve more resources.
All of it is pointing in the same direction: clothing made with a woman's interior life at the center, not as an afterthought, and spaces where women can access the conversations and community that help them figure out who they are and show up that way.