Andrea Ngan (she/her) is an organizational leader, design strategist, and co-design facilitator. As a daughter of Chinese immigrants from Guangzhou and Toishan (by way of Hong Kong), she grew up on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples, now known as San Francisco Bay Area. At a young age she supported family members navigating language access barriers and experiencing intergenerational trauma. These early experiences shaped her dedication to design justice, systems change, and building community power in service of healing, racial, and economic justice.

Since 2010, Andrea has co-founded and directed justice-committed organizations. She is a natural builder and weaver. She draws from a decade of experience leading the end-to-end design and development of products, services, policies, programs, and multimedia experiences. She joined the City of Philadelphia’s PHL Service Design Studio in 2020 as a founding team member and currently serves Philadelphians as the first Director of Community Co-Design.

As a facilitator and educator, Andrea has initiated youth-led programs and taught at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. She regularly facilitates public workshops about design justice, co-design, equitable community engagement, youth leadership, socially engaged art for change, and ways to build and share power.