About

Andrea is a strategist, connector and pragmatic optimist working at the intersection of sustainable development and social entrepreneurship as Program Associate at the Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE). Previously, she was the founding executive director of a San Francisco based climate change accelerator, Silicon Climate that leveraged resources from Silicon Valley to environmental innovations. Andrea also worked at Rainforest Action Network, an organization fighting climate change with hard-hitting and direct environmental campaigns and at Tides, an incubator providing capacity building services to social entrepreneurs and startups. Andrea received a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University, specializing in Environmental Science and Policy.