Andrea is a Senior Program Officer on the K-12 Education team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Andrea’s portfolio is focused on building infrastructure to support more inclusive and equity centered R&D in education. Prior to coming to the Foundation, Andrea served as the Executive Director of the Center for the Improvement of Student Learning within the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. In this capacity Andrea acted as the agency’s Chief Research Officer and led efforts to bridge the gap between research, policy, and practice in services of closing educational opportunity gaps.