Andréa has over a decade of research experience in the fields of clinical psychology and public health, spanning university, state agency, and federal government partnerships. At NORC, she provides research, evaluation, training and technical assistance support within the suicide prevention research portfolio.

Andréa is a behavioral scientist on the CDC-funded project ND Hopes suicide prevention initiative, where her role includes facilitating the project’s LGBTQIA+ community workgroup and creating LGBTQIA+ resources for youth-serving professionals in North Dakota. She is also leading focus groups with state suicide prevention leads and suicide prevention coalitions as part of the SAMHSA-funded Suicide Prevention Resource Center project Exploring Coalition Needs for Community-Based Suicide Prevention.

Before joining NORC, Andréa was a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, teaching courses on social determinants of health, health equity, and community organizing for social change. She also worked as adjunct faculty in the Public Health Sciences Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she taught courses on behavior change theory, community health research methods, and interprofessional approaches to suicide prevention. She has published nearly 50 peer-reviewed research papers on topics related to suicide prevention, mental health, positive psychology, and LGBTQIA+ health. Her work has appeared in academic journals including LGBT Health, Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, and Crisis, among others.