Alice Kang brings more than 20 years of senior leadership across nonprofit, technology, and global communications. She has led global product engineering teams, scaled digital platforms across international markets, and built the operational infrastructure to make complex organizations run well.
As President of Upwardly Global, she serves as the organization’s chief operating executive, overseeing its programs, product, technology, marketing and communications, and research and evaluation teams. She is currently leading Upwardly Global’s AI strategy, driving the responsible integration of technology to expand access and improve outcomes for immigrant and refugee jobseekers.
Before joining Upwardly Global, Alice served on the executive team at FoodCorps, a national nonprofit advancing child nutrition and well-being in schools. She led the development of a new theory of change to sharpen the organization’s strategy and focus, oversaw marketing and communications, research, systems and evaluation, and leadership development, and helped launch a national initiative at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.
At Amnesty International’s International Secretariat in London, Alice built and led the global marketing, communications, and digital teams. During her tenure, she grew the organization’s global supporter base to two million through campaigns that reached tens of millions of people and mobilized action across dozens of countries. Her work spanned crisis communications, human rights education, and major initiatives on women’s rights and the protection of human rights defenders.
Alice began her career in technology, working across early-stage companies before rising to lead global software engineering at Travelocity. There, she managed a team of 130 across Europe and Asia, overseeing the delivery of e-commerce platforms for flights, hotels, and travel packages across multiple international markets, aligning technical strategy with product performance and user experience at scale.
She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with dual Bachelor of Science degrees and a master’s degree. Raised in the United States as the daughter of Korean immigrants, and having lived and worked in Singapore and the United Kingdom, Alice brings both a personal and global lens to Upwardly Global’s mission. She lives in New York with her husband and three children.