Ixchel Garcia is an East Boston Native born to Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants. She spent 10 years at Zumix as a youth leader where she was unanimously nominated as the youth representative to receive the National Youth Arts and Humanities Award from former First Lady Michelle Obama in 2011 on behalf of Zumix.

Her career started in August 2019 working for Governor Baker in the Executive Office of Access and Opportunity, more commonly known as the diversity, equity and inclusion office within the Commonwealth. Here she assisted historically disenfranchised communities gain access to resources, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. These resources ranged from small business grants to equitable homeownership loans and trustworthy COVID-19 news/updates. She later transferred over to the MA Supplier Diversity Office (SDO). At SDO she assisted minority, women, LGBTQ+, disabled, and veteran-owned business enterprises with state certification and connecting them to small business capacity building and technical resources like PTAC, SCORE and the SBA.

At the end of her public career, she worked for Massport, in their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Office as a Senior Program Administrator for Supplier Diversity. During her time at this quasi-agency, she oversaw Massport’s Disability Accessibility program, participated on the voting committee for Massport’s contracts as a DEI representative, and oversaw Massport’s spending with diverse businesses.