ANDREA has been a Speech Writer and Public Speaking Coach for Peace is Loud www.peaceisloud.org; a Dramatists Guild Fellow (2008); Winner of the Gerald E. & Corinne L Parsons Fund Award in Ethnographic Research (Library of Congress American Folklife Center); former member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (Lyricist); Staff Writer for the Nickelodeon TV series, Allegra's Window; Bookwriter and star of Lady Be Good, a five-day Lincoln Center Theatre Workshop; Writer/Creator of Soon of a Mornin', a 2005 NYMF Invited Show at the Lions Theatre, NYC; and currently writer and star of me & ella, which was seen last year at 54 Below.