Meet Andrew.

A bridge builder by nature and community organizer by training, I bring over a decade of experience in social justice education and organizational development. I currently work as a consultant and hold inter-related roles as a facilitator at Stanford University and barber at Dax Lee’s Barber & Apothecary, each focused on building connection and community.

Throughout my career, I have supported students, community members, and organizational leaders to engage in reflective dialogue, move constructively through conflict, and cultivate more inclusive cultures. After organizing alongside students and families with the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless throughout my four years in undergrad, I started my career as a Community Organizer with MOSES in Detroit, MI. In this role, he conducted hundreds of one-on-ones with community members, faith leaders, and union workers to align local organizing efforts with national campaigns aimed at accountability for charter school authorizers. I then turned my focus toward leadership development and civic education to more directly support folks like him - as a white Polish American man from a multi-racial, working-class family in Detroit and its suburbs - often feeling in between communities and earnestly moving  across social, cultural, and political lines of difference.

After roles as a Program Coordinator at the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Baltimore, MD and Intergroup Dialogue Facilitator at the University of Maryland, I enrolled in graduate school to deepen my understanding of individual and institutional transformation, with an emphasis on white racial identity development and equitable organizational change. I then joined Promise54 - a consulting non-profit focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion - and re-rooted in Oakland, CA where he began partnering with the SEEDS Community Resolution Center as a conflict mediator and coach. Later, he enrolled at Moler Barber College to credentialize years of cutting hair in friends’ homes by earning a barber license and joining a full-fledged barbershop. I also started collaborating with organizations like Rollins Consulting and The Town Project to lend my skills and capacity as a co-facilitator and project manager. Now - guided by the question “How can we create the conditions for connection?” - I am striving to build belonging from the boardroom to the barbershop.

I hold a B.A. in Sociology from Loyola University Chicago and an Ed.M. in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he was an Equity & Inclusion Fellow. I earned an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential from the International Coaching Federation in 2022, was selected as a Fellow in the Oakland Chapter of New Leaders Council in 2020, and was awarded the Tina Tchen Ally Award from the Harvard Black Graduation Committee in 2018. I currently live in Oakland, CA with my partner, Nimah.