Analia Cuevas-Ferreras

Analia Cuevas-Ferreras is a senior manager in Bridgespan’s Boston office, where she advises nonprofits, philanthropies, and impact investors on strategies to increase their social impact. Her work spans strategic planning, organizational effectiveness, and capacity building. Analia’s client work also includes leadership development for community-based organizations through Bridgespan’s Leading for Impact® program, where she coached nonprofit leaders on strategy and organizational performance. She has also contributed to the firm’s research on nonprofit funding, growth, and measurement, co-authoring “A New Look at How US Nonprofits Get Really Big” (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2024), "Funding Strategies of Large US Nonprofits" (Bridgespan.org, 2024), and “How Nonprofits and NGOs Can Measure Progress Toward Systems Change” (Bridgespan.org, 2024).

Analia also has experience in international development from her time at the United Nations World Food Programme, where she helped shape the Business Innovation and Change Management division’s inaugural strategy, conducted due diligence on innovations addressing food insecurity, and helped develop and implement a global approach to measuring the impact of operational improvements.

Analia holds a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, with distinction in the major, from Yale University. While pursuing her MBA at Wharton, Analia worked at early-stage and established technology companies, using research to inform product and go-to-market strategy and identify opportunities to apply AI and automation.

Analia is a Fulbright grant recipient and former Fox International Fellow at the University of Copenhagen. She is also a recipient of Amplify Latinx’s ALX100 award, which recognizes Latino leaders across Massachusetts.