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