Andrea Roethke Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

In 2016, our team launched EdAllies as a locally-driven, independent nonprofit. I manage our policy and communications staff to achieve results that drive equity for Minnesota students, and am responsible for a variety of other internal and external functions. I work closely with our executive director to ensure organizational health, advance outreach and.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Served as interim executive director during organizational transition, ensuring continuity around policy goals and maintaining strong relationships with funders and stakeholders.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

At MinnCAN, a non-profit dedicated to strengthening education policy in Minnesota, my role was to enhance the organization and infrastructure to foster the our continued success and growth. I developed strategy to meet organizational goals and advanced our mission with both internal- and external-facing responsibilities, ranging from human capital.

JOTF is a Maryland-based non-profit that does research, advocacy, and program development focused on the needs of low-wage workers. I helped advance research-based policy reform to remove barriers and increase access to opportunity. I worked on a broad spectrum of issues including post-secondary access and success, unemployment insurance, transportation.

I conducted applied research on state and national workforce investment policies, including the collection of state-by-state data on the condition of the working poor, used to develop a framework of community vitality and policy indicators for local research and advocacy organizations participating in the Working Poor Families Project.

I served as teaching assistant to graduate students enrolled in the MPP program's core course in Policy Analysis. I provided support to the instructor and assisted students in developing policy memos and advancing semester-long group research projects.

Through this leadership and public management fellowship, I researched and compiled profiles of six neighborhoods targeted by the Foreclosure Intervention Initiative.

AFS provides foreign exchange experiences, primarily to high school students. At AFS, I provided support to students, volunteers, host families, and natural families, and managed the annual departure and arrival days for Central U.S. Region.

I served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA member, focused on the development of stronger service-learning programs at the University of Minnesota. I developed and coordinated a training and reflection series for students starting service-learning projects, and built partnerships, recruited, and trained community organizations as participants.