Salina is a first-generation of Eritrean and Ethiopian immigrants. She understands up to five languages and is studying for a bachelor’s degree at McGill University in Education. In her graduate research she will seek to influence educational policy to extend current Canadian and Quebecois curricula to include accurate historical attention for the Afro-descended Canadians, who continue to influence our world. By sensitizing people about Black presence she hopes to better understand the modern conditions of Black Canadians.