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Alisha Fernandez Miranda is the award-winning author of the USA Today bestselling novel Someone’s Gotta Give and the memoir My What If Year.

Her debut novel, Someone’s Gotta Give, was released on August 5, 2025. It tells the story of Lucia, a Latina non-profit exec and all around do-gooder who is juggling new motherhood in London. When she lands a dream job advising the rich and powerful on their philanthropy, she must learn to tell the difference between meaning well and doing good.

My What If Year, featured on Good Morning America, and was a best new book in People Magazine and the Boston Globe.

Alisha is the co-author of 50 Years: Kinloch Lodge, a culinary celebration of one of the Isle of Skye’s most exceptional hotels, which won a 2023 Guild of Food Writers Award. She hosts the podcasts Expats, Extra Shot with Alisha Fernandez Miranda. the award-winning Quit Your Day Job.

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.  She is a trustee of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Alisha also built and launched an app called Not My Style, focused on sustainable fashion and is 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 13-year old twins when they want to play Pokemon or watch The Traitors. Her writing has been published in Vogue, People, Marie Claire, Shondaland, Romper, The Good Trade, Insider, The Hopkins Review and more.