Help young people build life skills through active, expressive and collaborative programs.
Our programs bring together confidence, communication, teamwork, leadership, responsibility and creativity.
About Garcia Youth Programs
Movement, creativity and leadership belong together.
Garcia Youth Programs was founded by brothers Alex and Morgan Garcia to create youth experiences that bring movement, creativity, communication and leadership together.
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OUR STORY
Skills grow through active, social and creative practice.
The Garcia brothers’ approach is grounded in direct experience coaching, directing and supporting youth programs. They believe children build confidence, teamwork and responsibility by practicing those skills in active, social and creative situations.
Young people from different neighborhoods learn, move, create, speak, lead and belong together.
We envision a growing network of welcoming youth experiences rooted in shared activity and contribution.
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THE FOUNDERS
Complementary experience. Shared responsibility.
Co-founder · Education, storytelling & community
Morgan Garcia
Morgan Garcia is entering his senior year as an English major at UC Berkeley. A published journalist with 48 Hills and founder of The Berkeley Pulse, he brings more than five years of experience supporting young people as an educator, coach and tutor. Morgan has led students in classrooms and athletes outdoors, while contributing more than 200 volunteer hours in academic environments. He shapes Garcia Youth Programs’ creative curriculum, storytelling, partnerships and public communication—and draws on his love of poetry and rap to help young people find and share their own voices.
Co-founder · Youth programs, recreation & operations
Alex Garcia
Alex Garcia is a Bay Area youth-program and recreation professional with more than four years of experience across after-school programs, camps, sports and community organizations. He currently serves as a dual-site Team Captain with PlayCV, overseeing after-school programming at two Castro Valley middle schools. Previously, Alex served as Youth Programs Coordinator for the Oakland Spiders, progressed from Coach to Area Director with Skyhawks Sports Academy, and worked as a District Executive with Scouting America’s Golden Gate Area Council. He earned a B.S. in Health Sciences, with a concentration in Healthy Lifestyles and Fitness Science, from Arizona State University in 2024 and will begin UC Irvine’s Master of Public Administration program in Fall 2026. His work centers on building fun, lasting programs where young people develop confidence, independence, friendships and leadership. Outside of work, he enjoys strength training, hiking, mountaineering and travel.
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