Andrea Ortiz

Strategic Initiatives Director
Woods Fund Chicago

Throughout her career, Andrea has spearheaded transformative campaigns—including successfully advocating to reallocate $33 million for school resource officers into student programming and staff. She has also been a leader in developing the "Treatment Not Trauma" coalition—which seeks a city-wide program that dispatches mental health professionals and emergency medical technicians in response to mental health crises.

Andrea’s organizing approach bridges grassroots activism with policy change, ensuring marginalized communities have the power, voice, and resources to shape their own futures.

As the former Organizing Director at the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, she supported its work to improve the quality of life for working-class and immigrant populations on Chicago's Southwest Side.