Marvin H. Andrade is the Associate Director for Farm and Food Workers Relief at United Ways of California, leading the implementation of a statewide program that provides cash-aid to farm and food workers, regardless of status, and affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Previously, Mr. Andrade was Director of Organizing for LA Voice, the largest multi-racial faith-based community-organizing organization in Los Angeles, where he used a relationship-based organizing model to develop leadership and build capacity for civic engagement in communities throughout LA County with the intention of connecting and leveraging the power of the people to impact broad systemic change.

Prior to that, Mr. Andrade served as Director of Leadership Development of Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles, the nation’s largest legal and civil rights organization for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI), where he led a portfolio of programs for low-income Asian American, African American, and Latino youth and families offering culturally and linguistically diverse educational and community efforts geared at multi-racial/multi-ethnic collaboration, grassroots community involvement and movement building; and Executive Director of the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) in Los Angeles, the largest Central American immigrant rights organization in the country where he led the organization through The Great Recession, (lasting from December 2007 to June 2009, marking the longest economic downturn since World War II) and setting the foundation for the organization’s biggest expansion to become the largest Central American legal center in the country, providing pro-bono and low-cost immigration legal services, policy advocacy in immigration, and working for the rights all of all immigrants.

A Salvadoran immigrant and first in his family to graduate from high school, Mr. Andrade attended the University of Southern California where he received Bachelor’s of Arts degrees in Political Science and International Relations and the University of Phoenix where he received a Master’s degree in Management and Public Administration.

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mandrade@unitedwaysca.org