Tuesday, October 14, 2025
5:30 pm ET
VIRTUAL
We are sitting down with Alisha Fernandez Miranda, celebrated philanthropy expert and author, to discuss her latest book, Someone’s Gotta Give.
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Speakers
Alisha Fernandez Miranda
Chair
I.G. Advisors
ALISHA FERNANDEZ MIRANDA is the award-winning Cuban-American author of Someone’s Gotta Give. Her first book, the memoir My What If Year, featured on Good Morning America, and was a best new book in People Magazine and the Boston Globe. Her writing has been published in Vogue, Marie Claire, Shondaland, and numerous other publications.
Alisha is the current chair at I.G. Advisors, a leading social impact agency that consults the world’s biggest non-profits, including the Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation and UN Women. Alisha is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Harvard University, and speaks on women’s empowerment, social impact and sustainability.
She currently lives in Scotland with her husband and children.Katherine Giscombe has a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan, and trained at the Institute for Social Research, the world’s largest academic social science survey and research organization. With over 20 years experience in research and consulting, she is the founder of Giscombe & Associates, a firm focused on inclusion in the workplace.
Dr. Giscombe directed a groundbreaking research series on race and gender in the workplace sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the non-profit organization Catalyst, and is a member of the Experts of Color, a multi-disciplinary consortium focused on closing the racial wealth gap in the USA. Dr. Giscombe has extensive corporate work experience, having supported marketing and new product development at a variety of Fortune 500 companies prior to her Catalyst work. She is a highly effective speaker, workshop leader, and media spokesperson, having been interviewed by National Public Radio, CNN-FN, CBS Radio, the Boston Globe, and ARISE News among others. Dr. Giscombe received the 2007 “Legacy of Leadership” award from Spelman College Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, and was named by Profiles in Diversity Journal as a “Woman Worth Watching” in 2009. She is currently on the Advisory Board for Women’s Inter-Cultural Exchange, a nonprofit organization that builds and bridges social capital among women of diverse cultures. A frequent contributor to academic conferences, she has published on racism, positive organizational scholarship, and how organizations can better support under-represented groups.