When Anaheim native Sabrina Huynh applied to Cal Poly Pomona, she discovered that the university had an apparel merchandising and management program. It brought back a memory of her grandparents sewing clothes for a living and stirred in her a desire to work in fashion design and production.

Huynh has worked as a teaching assistant this year in her major’s capstone course, where students design, produce and market a fashion line to be sold in the Bronco Bookstore. The experience has helped get her noticed by fashion industry recruiters and has sparked an interest in her working in academia.