Andrea provides program management, design and facilitation for GEO’s cohorts, peer learning opportunities and peer communities by centering meaningful relationships, community learning, and equitable processes and outcomes.
Andrea is a bilingual, values-based Program Manager with 15 years experience advancing political and social change. Her experience ranges from electoral and community organizing, to policy and advocacy, and nonprofit and grantmaking spheres. Before coming to GEO, Andrea directed a trust-based philanthropy program at a community foundation in the Chiapas Highlands, leading organizational practice change to decentralize decision-making structures, and worked alongside local community members to promote inclusive, community-informed grantmaking rooted in traditional Maya practices.
Prior to that, she was a community organizer with Maya youth, using popular education approaches to support their resilience, resistance and self-led solutions in situations of homelessness, child labor and trafficking. Andrea also worked as a community organizer in Washington, DC, organizing with low-income, immigrant, Black, Latinx and AAPI families. She designed and facilitated multilingual workshops to support their power building, leadership and position as equals in the DC public school system to advance social justice starting in the classroom. In that role, she also coordinated and facilitated professional development for school-based staff, providing training and coaching on anti-bias education and equitable family engagement practices.
In her free time, Andrea enjoys cycling, painting and star gazing.
