Alia Sky, State Government Relations Director (Contact)
Alia was raised in Northern California and recently graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with her Bachelor’s degree. During her time at UCSB she tirelessly fought for increased resources, transparency and accountability for survivors of sexual assault. She helped organized the first ever Sexual Assault Awareness Month Lobby Day in the UC system and continuously held administration accountable for their shortcomings. For several years she has served on the Board of Directors of Students Against Sexual Assault, including as President.
She is especially interested in how the current systems of accountability do not meet student survivor needs. She focused her thesis work on the need to implement Restorative Justice as another avenue for survivors to access, utilizing research to illustrate how Title IX and police do not meet the federal mandate to provide equal access to education for all students.
Caroline Nguyen, Policy Director (Contact)
Caroline was born in Vietnam to a schoolteacher and civil service worker. Her family resettled in Little Saigon, Orange County when she was a toddler, whenceforth they grappled with economic insecurity, xenophobia, and the despair that compounded in its orbit.
While at UC Irvine as an undergraduate, Caroline founded and directed the statewide Reclaim Mental Health Conference and provided mentorship and guidance for student leaders at UC Davis and UC Santa Barbara to initiate similar efforts on their campuses as well. The Reclaim Mental Health Conference educates on mental health through a sociopolitical lens, centering the narratives of people of color, the working class, and other historically under-resourced communities. It aims to examine the disproportionate vulnerability to health dysregulation often found at the intersections of race and class —providing a platform for multidisciplinary discourse, community healing, and policy reform led by those impacted by American legacies of oppression and systems of inequity.
In her free time Caroline enjoys writing, and writes most frequently about grief & loss and racial justice.
Amine El Moznine, Federal Government Relations Director (Contact)
Salih Muhammad, Executive Director (Contact)
As Executive Director, Salih leads our staff team and organizational strategy, keeps the UCSA office in operation, supports the Board and other student leaders, and fundraises to maximize the potential of our organization. Salih also oversees planning for UCSA’s annual statewide conferences.
Raised in Oakland, California, Salih Muhammad strives to embody the principles of service, sacrifice, and selflessness. For much of his life, he has been committed to living toward the liberation of Black people, at home and abroad.
In 2009, he continued the pursuit of knowledge at the University of California, Berkeley, where he excelled as a Black student and organizer on campus. His favorite quote is from Franz Fanon, who stated, “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”