Andrea Longoria Lopez

Andrea has 15+ years' experience in nonprofit administration, youth programming, and community partnerships. Originally from the Salinas Valley, Andrea has worked on community building and paths to higher education for youth since her days as student at Hartnell Community College. There, she worked as a tutor with ESL students and international students while helping to organize conferences and workshops for local youth. She earned a BA in History and MA in Humanities from Cal Sate Northridge while continuing to work as a tutor and as a project assistant for a stateside assistive technology exchange program through the National Center on Deafness at CSUN. From 2011 to 2017 she served as Youth Services Coordinator at the MEND Afterschool program in Pacoima, CA, growing the program to serve 100 children each semester with tutoring, field trips and special youth & family events. She has served as a curriculum development consultant for the It Takes a Barrio (ITaB) Project and World of Teaching (WOT) Project at CSUN's Chicano/a Studies Department. She is a founding board member for GiGi's Playhouse Simi Valley, a Down syndrome achievement center. She is a Community Consultant Panelist for UCLA's Precision Nutrition Community Consultant Panel. Andrea loves spending her time with her family, and enjoys raising funds for causes that benefit her children.