Salina Galea'i
Operations & relations managerSalina is exploring the future of care, especially for those overlooked or displaced, through food, storytelling, and memory
SOCIAL FUTURESDISTRICT 5 & 6
ABOUT SALINA
Salina is passionate about creating connection, belonging, and meaningful experiences. She is a founding cohort member of San Francisco Contemplarium, a neighborhood institution that seeks to honor the human journey through reflective events and programming, and has long been involved in meditative and contemplation-based groups. She has years of experience in project, brand and event management from NYT bestselling book tours to speaking engagements to large-scale, talent and brand activations. Her current work focuses on building thoughtful, panoramic systems and relationships at her favorite bakery and small business in San Francisco, Butter & Crumble.
INTERESTSContemplative & Meditative Spaces, Nonviolent Communication, Mediation & Conflict Resolution, Relationship Building, Unreasonable Hospitality, Supporting Small Business
VISIONSan Francisco keeps the spark of care, collaboration, and action alive and growing. The people take delight in knowing that with shared responsibility comes fulfillment, and ensuring our city is one of regeneration, generosity, creativity, and vitality.
Food for thought
Food for Thought is a neighborhood-based series of intimate future-facing dinners that celebrate San Francisco neighborhood identities, especially those overlooked or displaced. The flavors of these meals will carry something intimate and familiar, but also something that speaks to a collectively expressed dream and inspires the motivation needed to realize it.
Brought to you in partnership with fellows Dakota Pekerti and Salina Galea'i.
July 8 & 9, 2026 • 5pmSalina’s Picks
Check out some of the materials and resources that have helped shape Salina’s visions for what could be.
Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara
This book completely transformed my outlook on what it means to serve people and do it well. Will Guidara distills a joy and love for hospitality that lit my own passion for it on fire. His perspective and hard-earned wisdom only affirmed that exemplary hospitality is a true craft. One well worth relentless pursuit in my own life.
The Growing Edge by Howard Thurman
Howard Thurman’s work has been most crucial in shaping my posture towards life. Whenever I’m feeling lost or groundless, I look to his words to remind me of what’s important. That keeping love, kindness, and true consideration of others at the heart of what we do, even when we don’t have all the answers and show up imperfectly, brings about the greatest joy and fulfillment. And always push the bounds of all I think I am and can do to find out what’s on the other side
We Can Do Hard Things Hosted by Amanda Doyle, Glennon Doyle, and Abby Wambach
As meaningful as it is hilarious, this is one of my favorite podcasts. At first I loved it because the hosts, who feel like pals hanging on the couch with me during weekly listens, because I thought they were fearless. Now I love them because all they talk about is showing up scared, vulnerable and hopeful with their best. Never expecting to get it all right, all the time. I could never run out of need for that kind of encouragement and example to carry into my daily hills and valleys.