Frieda Garcia

Frieda Garcia is a longtime activist and community organizer in the South End and Roxbury areas of Boston, Massachusetts.

She served as Executive Director of the United South End Settlement for 20 years[1] and was one of the founding members of La Alianza Hispana.

[2][9] Garcia served as the first director of La Alianza Hispana where she worked to provide a number of services to Spanish-speaking residents of Boston.

[15] In 2021 representatives from the Canadian Consulate in Boston held a honored Harriet Tubman with a wreath-laying ceremony for her efforts bringing enslaved people to freedom in Canada through the Underground Railroad, in particular in Southern Ontario, St.

[18] Garcia is one of 69 civil rights and social justice leaders honored in the 1965 Freedom Plaza located beneath The Embrace statue on the Boston Common and unveiled in January 2023.

Frieda Garcia (front row, third from the left) in the mid 1980s meeting with Boston mayor Raymond Flynn and other city officials.