Andrea Baeza, Special Projects

I am excited to be a part of the team as I care deeply about access to mental health services. As someone who has had to navigate complicated parts of the health and mental health systems, it’s important to me to provide as much support and guidance as a client would like throughout the process.

I would say my biggest passions are around creative expression and resource access. I work as a part-time farmer as well. It allows me to focus on resource access on multiple levels of well-being and lets me ground my hands into the dirt.

I have a bachelor’s degree from University of Colorado in human geography with a certificate in community studies. I have been trained by a number of social change institutions in organizing, facilitation, curriculum building, and on equity-informed mediation.

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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.”

– Excerpt from A Great Wagon
a poem by Rumi

I invest in what healing looks like for different individuals, where it needs to be centered for growing more equitable worlds and for social movements to be successful.