Alba García Martín
Alba María García Martín is a Spanish psychologist, anti-racism activist, and politician. She is the current general coordinator of the Sumar Mugimendua political party.
She was the coordinator of SOS Racism in Biscay. She is part of the Big Road association for community development in Senegal. She was an institutional action technician for Podemos Euskadi, and in 2023 began her political career with the Podemos Euskadi party.
In 2024, she was proposed by the party Sumar Mugimendua to lead the Sumar Euskadi coalition in the Basque Country, as a Lehendakari candidate in the 2024 Basque regional election. She did not obtain a seat as a deputy in the Basque Parliament.
On 30 November 2024, García was elected as general coordinator of the Sumar Mugimendua political party.
Biography
Born in Bilbao. She got a licenciate degree in psychology in the University of Deusto. In the last year of her degree, she was selected by the Bizkaia Talent agency for the Talentia program, since then being part of the Talentia Network. Later, she completed a master's degree in psychology of social intervention at the University of Deusto.She specializes in social intervention. She worked for three years at the Lagun Artean shelter with different groups. Then she worked for around ten years at the Telefónica Association of Retired Persons as a psychologist. She was the coordinator of SOS Racismo in Biscay, as an expert in anti-racism. and social intervention.
In 2020, she founded the Big Road Elkartea association, an association for community development in Senegal-Euskadi. She also participates in feminist activism. She is a member of the feminist organization feministAlde! She also collaborates as an opinion columnist with various media, including among others El Correo, Deia, elDiario.es, El Salto, and Naiz.
In 2021, she began working for the political party Podemos Euskadi in the Institutional Action secretary as an institutional action technician and as a coordinator of institutional action, electoral campaigns, and electoral program, being part of the team of technicians of the party. As a worker for the Podemos Euskadi party, she ran as a workers' delegate of the Basque Workers' Solidarity union in the union elections.
Political career
Podemos Euskadi (2023)
In 2023, she took the step into politics, as a candidate, with the Podemos Euskadi political party. In the 2023 Spanish local elections, she was a candidate for council member of the Bilbao City Council, for the Elkarrekin Bilbao electoral alliance, with Ana Viñals as a candidate for mayor of Bilbao.In the 2023 Basque foral elections, she was a candidate for deputy of the General Assembly of Biscay, for the Bilbao constituency, for the Elkarrekin Bizkaia electoral alliance, with Eneritz de Madariaga as candidate for General Deputy of Biscay. Although she did not obtain a seat as a deputy of the regional Parliament.
Sumar Mugimendua (2024)
In 2024, García was proposed by the Sumar Mugimendua political party to head the Sumar Euskadi electoral alliance in Euskadi, as a Lendakari candidate in the 2024 Basque regional election. For that, she stopped being a member of the Podemos Euskadi party and she began as a member of the party Sumar Mugimendua to lead the Sumar Euskadi electoral alliance. However she did not obtain a seat as a deputy in the Basque Parliament.On 30 November 2024, García was elected as general coordinator of the Sumar Mugimendua political party, at the party's founding assembly held on that date in Bilbao. The general coordination of the party was constituted as collegiate with three "co-leaders", who are García, Lander Martínez and Edurne García, but in which García herself would have a "prominent role" as leader.