Alisha Fernandez Miranda '04 presents her debut novel, Someone’s Gotta Give
Someone’s Gotta Give explores a woman’s struggle to truly know her new country and her own heart.
Miranda is the award-winning author of the USA Today bestselling novel Someone’s Gotta Give and the memoir My What If Year. My What If Year, featured on Good Morning America, was a best new book in People Magazine and the Boston Globe. Alisha is the co-author of 50 Years: Kinloch Lodge, a culinary celebration of one of the Isle of Skye’s most exceptional hotels, which won a 2023 Guild of Food Writers Award. She hosts the podcasts Expats, Extra Shot with Alisha Fernandez Miranda. the award-winning Quit Your Day Job. Alisha is Cuban-American, born and raised in Miami who has spent her adult life in New York and London. She is currently based in Scotland.
Alisha Fernandez Miranda '04 presents Someone's Gotta Give at Elliott Bay Book Company
Saturday October 11th, 2025
7:00pm - 8:00pm PT
Cost: Free
About Someone's Gotta Give
Someone’s Gotta Give tells the story of Venezuelan-American Lucia, a devoted fundraiser and new mother and new expat whose life gets turned upside after a whirlwind marriage and move to London. When she unexpectedly lands a glamorous job as a philanthropic adviser at London's poshest private bank, she’s delighted at the opportunity to do so much good. But she soon finds out that meaning well and doing good aren’t always the same thing, and that the world of the über-wealthy may not be everything that it's cracked up to be.
The book explores so many themes, including:
- What it means to follow your purpose and the differences between meaning well and doing good
- Learning to balance midlife, motherhood, marriage - and mission
- Global wealth and power with laugh-out loud storytelling
- Feminism with teeth: ambition, class, culture, and identity under the surface of every laugh
Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 10th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
Cost: Free
Emily Inslee, the event's moderator, is a member of the Gates Foundation’s Philanthropic Partnerships team. Her work focuses on building and mobilizing the next generation of champions for global health and development, ensuring that philanthropy helps the world’s most vulnerable children survive and thrive. Emily collaborates with and cultivates philanthropists and philanthropic organizations to close the gap between intent and action through action-oriented learning, engagement, and funding opportunities. Prior to joining the foundation, Emily was a Nutrition Policy Fellow at Global WACh and began her career at Mathematica Policy Research. Emily holds an MPA and Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the Evans School at the University of Washington and a BA in International Business with minors in Economics and Political Science from Western Washington University.
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