Andrea Figueroa is the Executive Director of Martinez Street Women's Center, an organization that transforms communities through women and girls by providing access to vital health services, quality education, and advocacy. Andrea is a two-time graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she studied Mexican American Studies, Public Administration and Non-Profit Management. Her love for community and advocacy drew her to MSWC in 2011, and she led the Girl Zone Program until December 2015.
Just over a month ago, the New York Times published an article called “The Families That Can’t Afford Summer”. They explain that while “most kids lose math skills over the summer, low income children also lose, on average, more than
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020