Alisha Fernandez Miranda is the author of a coming-of-middle age memoir, My What If Year, coming from Zibby Books in 2023. Detailing her year of unpaid internships in the dream jobs of her childhood, the book follows Alisha on her quest to figure out what might have happened if her life had taken a different path. Her story has been featured in Business Insider and Moms Don’t Have Time to Write.
Alisha is also a co-author of 50 Years: Kinloch Lodge, a culinary celebration of one of the Isle of Skye’s most exceptional hotels, and the host of the award-winning Quit Your Day Job, a new podcast that takes you behind the scenes of your dream jobs.
Alisha is a Cuban-American, born and raised in Miami who has spent her adult life in New York and London. She is currently based in Scotland.
In addition to being an intern, Alisha is the ex-CEO and current Chair at I.G. Advisors, an award-winning social impact intelligence agency that consults to the world’s biggest non-profits, companies and foundations on their philanthropy and social impact. She counts among her clients the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation and UN Women. She speaks and writes regularly on women’s empowerment, social impact and sustainability.
Alisha also built and launched an app called Not My Style, focused on sustainable fashion and is an advisor to economic research firm Fideres. She’s a proud graduate of Harvard University and the London School of Economics.
Alisha loves to read, travel, sing, watch Gilmore Girls, be served coffee in bed by her adoring/long-suffering husband, and hide from her 11-year old twins when they want to play Pokemon. Her writing has been published in Vogue, Romper, The Good Trade, Grazia, Metro, Huffington Post, HerStry and Waterproof, an anthology published in 2021.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Carl Hiaasen on Satire as a Product of Anger
Ayad Akhtar on Why Deep Reading Really Matters (Now More Than Ever)
Alka Joshi on Reimagining Her Mother’s Past in The Henna Artist
Eric Weiner: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
Dr. Michele Harper: Healing Yourself by Understanding How to Heal Others
John Freeman on How “Citizenship is an active thing”
Ruth Behar on How Being a Lucky Broken Girl Made Her a Best-Selling Author
Edwidge Danticat, on “Everything Inside,” Her Award-Winning Short-Fiction Collection, an Encore Episode
Susan Wiggs on The Power and Magic of Bookstores
Jim Carrey and Co-Author Dana Vachon on “Memoirs and Misinformation” with Special Guest Introducer, Judy Blume
Kevin Kwan on How to Beautifully Skewer People
Nicholas Griffin on The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees and Cocaine in Miami 1980
Ottessa Moshfegh: The Strange Responsibility of Holding Death in Your Hands
Curtis Sittenfeld on Why She Decided to Take on Hillary Clinton
James McBride on “The America that I write about when I write my books”
Megha Majumdar: Holding on to Humor During Times of Oppression
Former Black Panther, Albert Woodfox, on His 43 Years in Solitary Confinement
Robert Kolker on Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
The Ultimate Literary Bucket List
John Grisham, the Best-Selling Thriller Writer in the World
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Paranormal Portal
Don Cheto Al Aire
El Show De Piolín
The Count of Monte Cristo
Pollyanna
D.L. Hughley Uncut
Hablando de Frente Maria Marin