south asian creative director (ft. Sanjana Solanki)

Sanjana Solanki founder & creative director of Solucky, a South Asian-owned, Bay Area-based creative brand, and magazine. With hundreds of subscribers, Solucky features themes, trends & collaborations: produced by an expanding team curating & planning up current content while maintaining efficiency. In addition to running this & coming brand, with all of its accomplishments to date, Sanjana is concurrently in a 3rd year at San Jose State University perusing her degree in Business Administration with a concentration on management and possibly exploring comp sci. Her interests outside of her passion project and education range from traveling with friends up and down California and thrifting as she is passionate about ethical consumption. In addition, she is pursuing Google certificates in project management and principal learning of Python. We are diving into what it's like starting a business, managing a team & bringing creative visions and aesthetics into production through wardrobes, sets, and photoshoots to ultimately produce magazine issues for the hundreds of cult followers the Solucky brand has inspired. We discuss the hurdles that Sanjana has faced leading this entire enterprise as well as where the future of the brand leads. Is it possible to acknowledge her growth from building the brand, leaving it in the past, and moving on to more extraordinary things? ENJOY