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. [3]
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. [4]
Schlesinger sits on the board of The Nation, and was formerly on the board of the New York Women’s Foundation. [5]
Schlesinger has been published in The Nation, the Huffington Post,[6] and Alternet.org, among others. [7]
Schlesinger is a former director for the Pew Charitable Trusts’ national campaign to discuss the future of Social Security with college students. [8]
Schlesinger formerly served as the public relations director of Teach For America. [9]