Andrea, aka Dre among colleagues, has worked at UC for over 15 years and during this time completed three terms on the UCSF Staff Assembly Executive Board, including one year as Interim Chair and two years as a CUCSA Delegate. As a clinical applications professional, Dre builds and tests changes to UCSF's electronic health record (EHR). Before joining UCSF, Dre worked as an EHR manager at a community health clinic, a web programmer supporting public health research at UC Davis and research and business applications at UC Santa Cruz, and as a support group facilitator and on-call advocate for a nonprofit. Dre has been an active member on several committees focused on staff engagement since joining UC. Andrea brings this experience, technical skill, and educational training in social work and organizational development to contribute to cross-location committee work and advocate for staff, most recently as the Workgroup Chair of the CUCSA Compensation Workgroup for FY 23/24. As Past Chair of UCSF Staff Assembly and the new CUCSA
Chair-Elect, Dre's areas of focus are to continue to increase outreach, engagement, access, and collaboration opportunities between staff and UC leaders, create spaces for constructive feedback and listening sessions on issues impacting UC staff, and support partnerships between CUCSA and local staff assemblies to enact positive changes identified and recommended by UC staff. Dre's leadership style is creative, motivated, kind, trusting, collaborative, and supportive.