Mica Alaniz

About

Mica Alaniz is a Chicagoan, first and foremost, born and raised. She is also a Technical Leader focused on a values-based team growth, advocacy and coalition-building. All of which she brings to her role as a Senior Engineering Manager on the Admin & Trust team at Slack. Prior to that, she spent two US election cycles – the 2018 Midterm and 2020 Presidential elections – on the Tech team as an Engineer, Tech Lead and then as one of the first Engineering Managers at the Democratic National Committee. There she built tools to support Democratic candidates and campaigns power data-driven organizing and voter education. She is also proud to have been an organizing leader in the drive to form the DNC Staff Union. She continues to be engaged in her community through giving talks, teaching workshops and offering coaching centered around underindexed individuals in tech. In her spare time, she can be found enjoying and exploring her hometown, inhaling books, collecting board games and having this thing with coffee where she needs it to live.