For 15 years she’s initiated and stewarded social and healing justice organizations such as 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 thrives at being a weaver and builder 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 the City 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, community engagement, youth leadership, mental health, public art, and ways to build and share power for social change.
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.