Alysia Bell

President

Alysia Bell currently serves as President of UNITE-LA. Bell joined the organization in 2011. In her nearly 14 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 staffed the Education and Workforce Development Committee of the Regional Association of Economic Leaders (R.E.A.L.) Coalition of California for years. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the California Stewardship Network’s (CSN) Executive Committee and as a board member of California Forward.

Regionally, Bell serves on the California Jobs First Los Angeles County Collaborative Steering Committee, USC EdPolicy Hub Advisory Board, and works alongside UNITE-LA’s programs, policy and systems teams to advance equitable economic mobility.

Before joining UNITE-LA, Bell served as an executive for the Greater-Irving Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce; 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 spends her free time with her husband Matt and their seven-year-old son Maddox.