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Cassandra Casas Rojas
Cassandra Casas Rosas, born on January 3, 1995, is a Mexican-American fashion designer and business woman. She is the founder of CasasRojas, a fashion company that manufactures their products in Monterrey, Mexico. Rojas is passionate in the world of fashion and believes that fashion is more than just clothing and runways; it's about making a difference and a form of speech.

Early Life and Education
Cassandra Casas Rojas was born on January 3, 1995 in Monterrey, Nuevo León Mexico. As a child she was in dance and was the captain of her cheer team. Rosas wanted to become a neuron surgeon up until she was a junior in high school when she started to form an interest for fashion. She spent a semester in Florence, Italy, to complete a study abroad program. Rojas attended Kent State University and graduated top in her class in Fashion Design. She obtains a Bachelors of Fine Arts and a minor in Entrepreneurship and Marketing. While she attended Kent State University she actively participated in the schools annual fashion show. In 2018, she was the Fashion Design winner and won the Niche Award for Most Innovative collection.

Fashion Collections
During Rojas' trip to New Zealand she shared her gLOBAL collection at the ID Dunedin Fashion Week. gLOBAL was a collection inspired by Global Nomadism. This collection was the concept of temporary living. Rojas created clothes that were able to be transformed into a variety of different functional garments: a jacket, backpack, sleeping bag and tent.

Businesses
Rojas is the founder and creator of CasasRojas, a fashion brand that creates apparel at an attainable price. All products are manufactured in Monterrey, Mexico and made by women in the comfort of their own home. Rojas provides materials like sewing machines so they can create the apparel for her. Womanhood is a large inspiration for their empowerment, diversity and integrity that is integrated in what they stand for. Her mother is in charge of overseeing all of the production.

Accomplishments

 * 2017- International Youth Design Competition, 4th place, Beijing, China
 * 2018- Kent State University Alchemy Annual Fashion School Fashion Show, Fashion Design winner and Niche Award for Most Innovative collection, Ohio, United States
 * 2018- Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2nd place out of 400 finalists, Ohio, United States
 * 2018- Fusion Iffiti Student Design Competition, 1 of 45 finalists out of 262 applicants and 12 countries
 * 2019- Kent State University wrote an article about her accomplishments since graduating
 * 2019- iD Emerging Designer Awards, received the Award Therapy+Psychology Free to Be Me Award
 * 2020- Fashion Forward Distribution Through Design Exhibition, Dunedin, New Zealand
 * 2021- Fashion Forward Distribution Exhibition, Dunedin, New Zealand
 * 2021- Rojas was part of New York Fashion Week