Speaking & Booking
Book Felicia
Bring Felicia's story — and the data behind it — to your stage, classroom, or organization.
Why Book Felicia?
Felicia Bermúdez brings a rare combination of lived experience and corporate leadership to every stage. She grew up navigating the American safety net — free lunch programs, underfunded schools, and the constant pressure of generational poverty — and went on to lead marketing at IBM, Cloudflare, and Cloudera.
Her talks are part personal narrative, part data-driven investigation. Audiences leave with a deeper understanding of economic mobility, the policy levers that matter, and what it actually takes to break cycles of poverty.
Topics & Formats
Keynote Speaking
Inspiring keynotes on economic mobility, resilience, and the intersection of lived experience and policy.
Panel Discussions
Moderated panels and fireside chats on poverty, education equity, and working families.
Podcast Appearances
Long-form conversations on social policy, memoir, and the data behind generational poverty.
Book Clubs & Classrooms
Author visits and Q&A sessions for book clubs, universities, and community organizations.
What People Are Saying
Felicia's story is both deeply personal and universally resonant. She left our audience inspired and thinking differently about economic policy.
A rare voice that bridges the boardroom and the community. Her data-driven approach to storytelling is unlike anything we've seen.
The Book
Pre-order Free Lunch Kid
The memoir behind the message. The bootstrap myth is a lie that hides the real machinery. Nearly every chapter directly attacks "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" language, showing that survival and mobility depended on specific programs that could vanish with the next budget cut.
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