Alexandra Aquino-Fike
Director of Development
Area of expertise: Philanthropic advising; nonprofit resource development and program development; strategic cultivation of donors to engage with and support social justice movement leaders
You want to get to know her because:
- Alexandra leads ERA’s development team and is a lifelong advocate of shifting resources and capital to social justice movement leaders. Using her legal and policy experience, she is highly skilled at strengthening and building new partnerships between committed donors and organizations striving to address systemic barriers to gender and racial equity.
- She brings over 12 years of experience in setting and executing bold resource and program development strategies for nonprofit and philanthropic institutions. Previously, she was the Vice President of Development at the East Bay Community Foundation, where she led the stewardship of individual and institutional donors and created an innovative donor organizing program that provided deep learning around racial equity and channeled resources for social justice movements in the East Bay. In addition, she is the former Vice President of Development at Hispanics in Philanthropy, where she led the creation and launch of the first transnational crowdfunding platform for Latinx-led nonprofit organizations.
- Before her work in the philanthropic sector, she was an associate attorney with the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP and worked with international development organizations focused on rural development, in particular increasing women’s land ownership.
- Alexandra serves on the board of directors of the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the SHARE El Salvador Foundation, and is the chairwoman of the board of directors of the Mauricio Aquino Chacón Foundation, nonprofit organizations based in the Bay Area.
Alumna of:
- U.C. Berkeley School of Law (JD)
- Harvard Kennedy School (MPP)
- Wellesley College (BA)
Outside of work:
- Alexandra was born in El Salvador and grew up in the U.S. in a family of human rights and social justice advocates. She remains active in fighting for the rights of relatives of individuals forcibly disappeared during El Salvador’s civil war.
- In addition to her nonprofit board service, she is an elected official community leader, serving on the Board of Directors of the Kensington Police Protection and Community Services District (KPPCSD), first as President of the Board of Directors and currently as Vice President.
- In her free time, Alexandra loves to read and cuddle with her two children or run with her rescue dog in the East Bay.
