Alla Garcia

Programs Director

Alla has over 12 years of experience working within international NGOs, think tanks, philanthropy, and the private sector at national, regional, and global levels. A generalist with knowledge of a broad range of issues, she has navigated her professional life around obtaining a diversity of geographic and functional insights.

Alla’s previous role as a portfolio analyst at the Open Society Foundations has often required her to switch contexts and apply her skills in varied ways to support grantees, colleagues, and partners. Her thematic interests include gender mainstreaming, democratic engagement of citizens, inclusive digital governance, disinformation and big tech accountability, strategic communications, and civil society capacity-building.