Title: President
Organization: Triangle Community Foundation
Andrea Bazán is president of Triangle Community Foundation, where she oversees approximately $140 million in assets housed in nearly 700 charitable funds. Previously, she was executive director and chief lobbyist for El Pueblo, a statewide advocacy and public policy organization based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Bazán served as the first Latina lobbyist at the North Carolina General Assembly and also lobbied at the federal level. One of a handful of Latina heads of philanthropic foundations in the country, she is a frequent speaker at local, state and national meetings. Bazán is a member of the Leadership Council of Hispanics in Philanthropy, co-chair of the CEO Network of the Council of Foundations and chair of the National Council of La Raza’s Board of Directors. Bazán also sits on the boards of the National Immigration Forum, BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina and Wachovia Bank in Raleigh.
She holds a master’s degree in social work and in public health from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
