Salina Galea'i  

Operations & relations manager

Salina is building a new vision of care, especially for those overlooked or displaced, through food, storytelling, and memory.

SOCIAL FUTURES
DISTRICT 8

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.

INTERESTS

Contemplative & Meditative Spaces, Nonviolent Communication, Mediation & Conflict Resolution, Relationship Building, Unreasonable Hospitality, Supporting Small Business

VISION

San 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

A Taste of Bayview, Past & Present

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 • 5:00-8:00pm

India Basin Food Pavilion, 900 Innes Ave, San Francisco

Salina’s Picks

Check out some of the materials and resources that have helped shape Salina’s visions for what could be.

Unreasonable Hospitality

Nonfiction Book

The Growing Edge

Meditative Sermons

We Can Do Hard Things

Podcast Series
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