Andrea Plate

Andrea Plate is a California Licensed Clinical Social Worker who served for almost 15 years at the West Los Angeles branch of the Department of Veterans affairs. There, she ran a residential substance abuse program for veterans who are also homeless and suffering mental health problems. She is the author of the internationally published nonfiction book Madness: In the Trenches of America’s Troubled Department of Veterans Affairs, published by Marshall Cavendish International.

Ms. Plate is a Lecturer at Loyola Marymount University (“Introduction to Social Work,” “Gender and the Military”) and is a Senior Editor of the LMU web magazine, Asia Media International.

She was a keynote presenter recently for the National Association of Social Workers and has published two other nonfiction books, including one about her days as a child actress in the entertainment industry.