Jo Garcia

About Jo Garcia

Jo Garcia (born August 3, 1980) is an American nude and lingerie Playboy model who became Playboy's Cyber Girl of the Year for 2008, after being named Cyber Girl of the Month in October 2007, and Cyber Girl of the Week for the week of June 18, 2007.

In an interview with Kotaku she stated that she is an avid gamer; listing favorites such as the Radiata Stories, Xenosaga trilogy and up to "100 hours into FFXII".

An avid fan of roleplaying games, she talks about her experiences playing the Final Fantasy series, interviews she does with video game industry people, as well as other video games she's currently into.

In August 2009, Garcia was the floor correspondent for Blizzard Entertainment's Blizzcon 2009, performing interviews and demonstrations from the show floor for the DirecTV pay per view feed.

In August 2008, Garcia launched a video game blog that appears on Playboy.com, called The Gamer Next Door. In her blog, Garcia reviews games and interviews industry professionals and celebrities about video games. For Halloween 2008, she counted down her favorite scary games while touring the haunted house at the Playboy Mansion Halloween party.

In October 2008, Garcia appeared in a presidential election spoof video for Funny or Die.com. Footage was taken from the Presidential town hall debate which took place October 7, 2008, and digitally altered to show the women asking Senators Obama and McCain a series of questions. Garcia is also involved with Pwn or Die.com and regularly contributes videos that can be found at her personal Pwn or Die page.

A digitized sequences of Garcia's DNA was preserved in the Immortality Drive in case some global cataclysm should occur on Earth.


Jo appeared as the Playboy Employee of the Month for January 2007 in the Cyber Club, then was named Cyber Girl of the Week for 18 June 2007 and Cyber Girl of the Month for October 2007, before subsequently being named Cyber Girl of the Year 2008.

She appeared in two pictorials of the Cyber Club feature "S.E.X." (Special Editions Xtreme), 100 (with Lindsey Vuolo) and 104.

She was also featured in the Playboy video series "Bodcast," episode #96.