Andrea Perry

Andrea (she/her/hers) is a Senior Program Officer at Fidelity Foundations on the Economic Opportunity team. Prior to this role, Andrea was the Associate Director for Pilot Projects at Harvard Radcliffe Institute overseeing two strategic focus areas– youth leadership and law, education, and justice. Andrea also served for eleven years as the Executive Director of YouthConnect, a program of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston that places clinical social workers inside Boston police stations to work with youth and families involved in the criminal legal system. Andrea has over 20 years of experience working directly with Boston’s most vulnerable youth, including her work as a VISTA volunteer creating mentoring programs for Boston Public Schools, in a juvenile court clinic, with a teen parenting program, and as a member of an on-call trauma response team.  She earned her undergraduate degree at Smith College, and her MSW at Boston College School of Social Work. In 2012, the White House named Andrea as a “Champion of Change” for youth violence prevention. She is an alumna of the Boston University Institute for Non-Profit Management and Leadership program and a 2015 graduate of LeadBoston.