Andrea Guengerich Education
Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher
in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico
border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting
in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district
in Austin
Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school
in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child
A less formal approach that focuses on coordinating
policies across
borders, already under way as the result of some modest progress at the global climate talks, as well as innovative efforts to coordinate technology promotion such as the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) process, may be the best that is possible
in the near
future.