La Alma-Lincoln Park Community Needs Assessment

Andy grew up in Athens, Georgia, and graduated from Emory University with a degree in anthropology. He conducted field research in the Central Plateau of Haiti, studied the relationship between food insecurity and mental health, and helped develop a community garden in the Bankhead neighborhood of Atlanta. An advocate for immigrants' rights, he led a successful initiative for tuition equity at Emory that resulted in a change to Emory policy to provide financial aid to undocumented students. He organized a college preparation class at Freedom University, a modern-day freedom school that provides college-level classes for undocumented students in Georgia. Andy has interned with the United Way of Greater Atlanta, where he helped implement a family-based community development initiative in a refugee community in Clarkston, Georgia.