About me
Andrea R. Flores serves as Vice President of Immigration Policy & Campaigns at FWD.us. She grew up on the U.S.-Mexico border and experienced the failures of our nation’s approach firsthand. She is an attorney and policy expert who has spent her career advising lawmakers on meaningful reforms to the immigration system. She most recently served as Chief Counsel to the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where she advised the Chairman on managing migration in the Western Hemisphere. Previously, she served in the Biden administration as the Director of Transborder Security on the National Security Council, where she oversaw a bilateral operation to build a new ports of entry process for asylum seekers. At the ACLU, she led the organization’s national immigration advocacy work and on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, she served as a policy advisor on battleground state policy issues. Andrea also served in the Obama administration, both at the White House Domestic Policy Council and the Department of Homeland Security, where she worked on a range of policies including the creation and implementation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the 2013 Senate immigration bill, and operational responses to the 2014 border crisis.
