Andrea Batista Schlesinger is a liberal activist, consultant, and advocacy nonprofit executive, and has been a partner at left-leaning urban policy consultancy HR&A Advisors since 2017. ¹ She was formerly executive director of the Drum Major Institute. ²

Career

Schlesinger is the former U.S. Programs deputy director for George Soros’s global philanthropy, the Open Society Foundations. ¹

Schlesinger served as the Special Advisor to former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, where she lead the Young Men’s Initiative, which influenced former President Barack Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Initiative. ¹

Schlesinger sits on the board of The Nation, and was formerly on the board of the New York Women’s Foundation. ¹

Schlesinger has been published in The Nation, the Huffington Post,³ and Alternet.org, among others. ²

Schlesinger is a former director for the Pew Charitable Trusts’ national campaign to discuss the future of Social Security with college students. ²

Schlesinger formerly served as the public relations director of Teach For America. ²

1. “Andrea Batista Schlesinger.” HR&A Advisors, 2020. Accessed February 23, 2020. https://www.hraadvisors.com/team/andrea-batista-schlesinger/.
2. “Andrea Batista Schlesinger.” HuffPost, 2020. Accessed February 23, 2020. https://www.huffpost.com/author/andrea-batista-schlesinger.
3. “Andrea Batista Schlesinger.” Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Accessed February 23, 2020. https://www.bkconnection.com/experts/andrea-batista-schlesinger.