Andrea Ngan (she/her) is an organizational leader, design strategist, and facilitator whose practices nurture community power and mutual care. As a daughter of Chinese immigrants from Guangzhou and Toishan, she grew up on Ohlone land in the San Francisco Bay Area bridging diverse cultures.  Since a young age she supported family members navigating language access barriers and experiencing intergenerational trauma. These early experiences shaped her commitment to design justice and collective organizing in service of healing, racial, and economic justice.

For more than 15 years she’s built and stewarded social justice organizations; The Periscope Summer Urban Laboratories, Creative Resilience Collective, Creative Resilient Youth, and Design Justice Philly Node. With a background in leading the end-to-end design and development of products, services, policies, programs, and multimedia experiences, Andrea is a weaver of collaborative initiatives. Her community and design leadership led her to become a founding team member at the City of Philadelphia’s PHL Service Design Studio, where she now serves residents as the first Community Co-Design Practice Lead.

Andrea has lectured at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design and 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.

Prior to her work in Philadelphia, she designed interactive experiences, products, and multimedia for cultural organizations, museums, and public spaces. Some of her clients have included the 9/11 Memorial Museum, Emerson Collective, and the Equal Justice Initiative.