Andrea Steele

Andrea Dew Steele is the Director of the California Committee North at Human Rights Watch. Andrea was most recently the President of Emerge America, an organization she founded to train, recruit and mentor Democratic women interested in running for political office. Andrea also served for eight years as the Political and Philanthropic Advisor to Susie Tompkins Buell, co-founder of Esprit Clothing and Democratic activist and philanthropist. Before moving to the Bay Area, Andrea worked for many years in Washington D.C. where she did fundraising and policy work for Democratic candidates. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Tufts University and a M.A. in International History from the London School of Economics.