Emily Andrews *20 SPIA
Organizer, Advocate, Troublemaker
Director, Program Management, Freedom Together Foundation
Emily Andrews is the director of program management at the Freedom Together Foundation, which works to expand and defend multiracial democracy. She has dedicated her career to fighting for economic and racial justice and is committed to worker empowerment and lifting the voices of directly impacted people in the pursuit of better public policy. Andrews is the former director of education, labor and worker justice at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), where she led a team of experts focused on job quality, workforce development and adult and postsecondary education. Prior to CLASP, Andrews was director of new organizing strategies at Community Change and worked to organize low-income communities of color. She began her career in the labor movement and has successfully organized childcare, healthcare, education and transportation workers in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Peru. Andrews holds a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College, a master’s degree in international affairs from The New School and a master’s degree in public policy from Princeton.