Jo Garcia Bio
Jo Garcia is an American Account executive, gamer, streamer, and nude model. She was born on August 3, 1980, in New York City, New York. Playboy featured her as Cybergirl of the Month in October 2007 at 27. She later received the Cybergirl of the Year title for 2008. The feature was part of Playboy's web-first model program.
Garcia has natural breasts, brown eyes and black hair. Her measurements are 32-24-32.
Jo Garcia’s Playboy career took an unusual turn when gaming became part of the job. A dedicated player of RPGs and MMORPGs, she eventually brought that interest directly to Playboy, launching Gamer Next Door in August 2008. The gaming column gave Garcia a role that went well beyond posing, allowing her to write and host around a subject that already occupied hours of her free time.
Her history with Playboy stretched back several years. Garcia completed her first nude shoot for the company in July 2002, while still in her early twenties. Before modeling became her full-time occupation, she worked as an account executive for a cellphone company—a suitably technological prelude to what followed. Playboy named her Employee of the Month in January 2007, beginning a rapid series of distinctions within the brand.
That same year, Garcia became Cybergirl of the Week for June 18 before advancing to Cybergirl of the Month. The progression culminated in her being named Cybergirl of the Year for 2008. Garcia acknowledged that the competition had been difficult and credited Playboy’s dedicated fans for the result. By then she had developed into one of the company’s popular online personalities, working full time as both a model and host.
Gamer Next Door made particularly good use of that visibility. Garcia could spend four or five hours a day playing games, and Playboy turned a genuine personal interest into recurring editorial content rather than treating it as a passing biographical detail. In 2009, her gaming credentials took her outside Playboy’s own platforms when she worked as a floor correspondent at Blizzard Entertainment’s BlizzCon, putting her amid one of the industry’s major fan gatherings.
Garcia’s Playboy record consequently charts more than the familiar rise through Cybergirl voting. Her connection began with a shoot in 2002, expanded through Employee, Week, Month and Year honors, and then evolved into hosting and gaming coverage. Gamer Next Door proved an especially fitting assignment for someone who had moved from the cellphone business into modeling while remaining deeply interested in technology. As Garcia herself said of the work, she loved that it was always changing.
