Adriana Rocha Garcia PhD

Councilwoman Dr. Adriana Rocha Garcia currently serves as District 4

representative to City Council. During her first term, she formed part of the first

women-majority elected City Council. She currently serves as the Chair of the

Planning and Community Development Committee. Prior to being elected to City

Council, Dr. Garcia served as the Chair of the City of San Antonio’s Ethics

Review Board for nearly three years.

Dr. Garcia is a lifelong resident of San Antonio and continues to call Southwest

San Antonio home. She has a passion for working with organizations that help San

Antonio’s most underrepresented populations. Raised in a Spanish-speaking

household to parents with a first- and second-grade Mexican education, she

became the first in her family to earn a college degree.

Dr. Garcia received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the

Incarnate Word in San Antonio (UIW). Upon graduation from Incarnate Word, she

was offered a job in the university’s Office of Public Relations and completed her

Master’s degree there. In 2004, she was in a cohort of 12 students accepted into the

University of Texas at Austin's Doctoral Advertising program, where she became

one of the first Hispanics to earn a Ph.D. in Advertising from UT’s prestigious

Moody College of Communication.

Today, Dr. Garcia is molding tomorrow’s leaders as an Assistant Marketing

Professor at Our Lady of the Lake University, where she teaches marketing in the

School of Business and Leadership and is a past recipient of the 1895

Commemorative Award for Faculty Excellence.

In her role as a public servant, Councilwoman Garcia is a model for others to

follow who strive to overcome limitations while achieving their goals through the

power of advocacy and education— serving as champion for the next generation of

female leaders in the process. Councilwoman Garcia is actively involved with the

Girls Empowerment Summit—an event that encourages young women to pursue

their interests in STEM-based areas. She personally engages with summit

participants to encourage and guide them as they learn about important topics that

affect their personal and professional development.