Alysia Bell currently serves as President of UNITE-LA. Bell joined the organization in 2011. In her nearly 13 years with UNITE-LA, she has led the organization’s national work in partnership with the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE), which has raised over $15 million, sub-granting nearly $1 million to chambers across the country leading promising practices in higher education attainment; graduated over 200 business organization leaders from the Fellowship for Economic Mobility that UNITE-LA and ACCE co-designed; and engaged more than 600 chamber professionals in the Education and Talent Development Division that UNITE-LA and ACCE co-launched in 2011.

At the state level, Bell has staffed the Education and Workforce Development Committee of the Regional Association of Economic Leaders (R.E.A.L.) Coalition of California and now serves as Co-Vice Chair of the California Stewardship Network’s (CSN) Executive Committee. CSN is focused on regional collaboration to advance the triple bottom line of economy, equity and environment.

Regionally, Bell works alongside UNITE-LA’s programs, policy and systems teams, plays a key role in the organization’s Anti-Racism and Race Equity learning journey, and has led organization-wide efforts, including staff expansion, technology transitions and strategic planning.

Before joining UNITE-LA, Bell served as an executive for the Greater-Irving Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce where she worked at the intersection of education, workforce development and economic development; held positions with LAUSD’s Personnel Selection Branch and Southern California Edison’s Performance Assessment Services Division; and served as an Adjunct Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Pepperdine University.

Bell graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern California and earned her master’s degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Cal State Long Beach.

Born and raised in Santa Cruz and an avid sports fan, she remains dedicated to her San Francisco Giants, although she has adopted the Lakers and Rams since moving to Los Angeles in 1999. In her spare time, she focuses on her family, including husband Matt and their six-year-old son Maddox, who loves soccer, basketball, baseball, and video games.