Frieda McAlear

Frieda McAlear is the Director of Seeding Innovation, where she brings her skills as a social science researcher and her passion for working with and for marginalized and underrepresented communities at the Kapor Center. She has nearly a decade of experience managing projects, developing evaluation and research methodology, and building nonprofit technology capacity with socially progressive organizations in the Bay Area, Europe, and Southern Africa. In 2013, she worked as an evaluator for an HIV/AIDS clinic serving villages in Lesotho and as a Program Coordinator for ZeroDivide in San Francisco in 2014.

She holds a Master of Research in Geography from Queen Mary University of London and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Vesalius College in Brussels. She has nearly a decade of experience managing projects, developing evaluation and research methodology, and building nonprofit technology capacity with socially progressive organizations in the Bay Area, Europe, and Southern Africa.