Cathy Garcia

Cathy Garcia leads a portfolio of investment and support in economic mobility. This includes grantmaking, stakeholder engagement, and other strategic outreach to support economic mobility partners working to close the racial wealth gap.

Prior to joining the Dodge Foundation, she was Director of Funder Community and Learning at Resilia where she led and scaled a national learning network of grant-makers leveraging technology to practice more responsive grantmaking. She’s held program leadership positions at Robin Hood overseeing national community-led economic mobility projects and helped shepherd hundreds of millions in philanthropic capital towards inclusive and equitable economic growth at the Prudential Foundation and Citi Foundation. 

Cathy began her career organizing communities on environmental justice issues in New York City, where was born and raised. A fiercely proud daughter of Colombian immigrants, she is a graduate of Hunter College CUNY and NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.