Alicia McBride serves as FCNL’s senior director for Quaker leadership. In this role, she works with staff, governors, Quakers, and advocates to connect them to the shared work of effective, prophetic Quaker advocacy. She clerks several staff and leadership teams, organizes FCNL’s Annual Meeting, and supports and strengthens FCNL’s relationships with Quakers and their meetings and churches across the country.
An alumna of the young adult program, Alicia returned to FCNL professionally in 2004 as the first head of communications. Since then, her work has spanned online and print communications, strategic planning, organizational storytelling, and Quaker engagement. Her different roles are connected by a concern for how to live and act with integrity in a complicated and imperfect world.
Alicia holds an M.A. in Human Centered Design and Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a B.A. in English from Carleton College. She is a member of Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, and serves on the advisory board for the Earlham School of Religion. She is also a certified yoga teacher and enjoys reading and talking about books, knitting, and cooking. She and her partner have two young adult children and live in Takoma Park, MD.
