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Elena Santos
Fashion & Culture Writer
She/Her
Elena Santos is a writer and former sustainable fashion designer based in Brooklyn, New York. She studied environmental design at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she developed a deep interest in sustainable material systems and traditional craftsmanship. After working at a Brooklyn-based sustainable fashion startup, she spent a year traveling through Central America writing about Indigenous textile traditions, an experience that fundamentally reshaped her understanding of what sustainability actually means in practice.
At VegOut, Elena writes about sustainability, food culture, and plant-based living through the lens of design, tradition, and cultural preservation. Her Brazilian and Cuban heritage informs a perspective that connects food systems to broader questions about identity, community, and how cultures sustain themselves across generations.
Elena maintains a small Instagram account documenting textile craftsmanship and Indigenous knowledge systems. She does her best writing early in the morning in quiet coffee shops, before the day gets complicated. She believes sustainability is not a trend but a return to how people have always lived when they paid attention.
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