Alice Kang brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in the nonprofit and tech sectors, guiding global teams through periods of growth and change. As Upwardly Global’s President, she oversees the Programs, Product, Marketing & Communications, IT, and Evaluation teams, drawing on both strategic insight and operational discipline.
Most recently at FoodCorps, a national nonprofit advancing child well-being through food in schools, she served on the executive team leading Marketing & Communications, Research, Systems & Evaluation, and Leadership Development. Alice directed the creation of a new theory of change aligned with the organization’s 2030 strategy. In addition, she led digital and media campaigns that produced the highest number of service members recruitment in four years and partnered on advocacy efforts, including launching a national initiative at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.
At Amnesty International’s International Secretariat, Alice led a strategy to expand and engage a global movement for human rights, adding two million supporters in three years. She also built and managed the marketing, communications, and digital teams, delivering campaigns that reached tens of millions and mobilized action online and in communities around the world. Her work directed crisis communications, engaged constituents with human rights education courses, and launched major initiatives on women’s rights and human rights defenders.
Alice began her career in tech, rising to lead global product engineering at Travelocity, where she oversaw e-commerce platforms across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, aligning technical strategy with product performance and user experience across multiple business lines.
Rooted in her experience as the daughter of Korean immigrants and shaped by her time in the U.S., Singapore, and U.K., Alice brings a deeply personal perspective to her work and our mission. She graduated from MIT with dual Bachelors of Science degrees and a Master’s degree, and lives in New York with her husband and three children.
