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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, which is being adapted into a feature film by Warner Bros. and America Ferrera. Alisha’s books have made national bestseller lists and been featured by Good Morning America, The View, CNN, People Magazine and the Boston Globe, among others. Her forthcoming novel, Two Places at Once, will be released in 2027.

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 the vice chair of the Edinburgh International Book Festival and a member of the board of Poderistas.

Alisha also built a sustainable fashion app called Not My Style 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 beg her teenage twins to hang out with her. Her writing has been published in Vogue, People, Marie Claire, Shondaland, Romper, Waitrose Magazine, Insider, The Hopkins Review and more.