Andrew Nguyen
2014 Brandeis Undergraduate Segal Fellow
Andrew Nguyen is Employment Program Manager at HIAS Pennsylvania. He's been a union organizer, most recently working as a Research Analyst and Organizer for UNITE HERE Local 26 a labor union organization in Boston.
Andrew graduated from Brandeis University with a B.A. degree in Sociology and Anthropology. At Brandeis, Andrew was a member of Students for a Just and Stable Future and co-founded the Brandeis Divestment Campaign, a movement to divest the university’s endowment from fossil fuel corporations. He was a member of Climate Summer, a program that travels throughout New England exclusively by bikes to support and connect local community groups and individuals on environmental justice and climate change. He is interested in grassroots intersectional work at the nexus of race and class, seeking approaches that will bring together people from a diversity of movements. Andrew is from the suburbs of Philadelphia. During Andrew’s Segal Summer Internship, he worked at School of Unity and Liberation in San Francisco, California. He was mentored by Segal Founder Garen Corbett as his Segal Coach.