Andrea Vaghy

Ms. Vaghy is a nonprofit leader and national workforce development expert with over 20 years of experience designing and managing workforce, education, college, and social service programs. From 2007-2020, Ms. Vaghy led The Door’s career and education service department, helping to shape nationally recognized workforce development, education and college access services for in-school and out-of-school youth, including This Way Ahead, a unique retail sector training and internship program with The Gap, Inc., and Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP), an Annie E. Casey Foundation and Social Innovation Fund initiative to improve college matriculation and persistence outcomes for homeless and system-involved youth. Prior to The Door, Ms. Vaghy was the Deputy Director of Client Services at Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation, where she developed nationally recognized workforce, entrepreneurial, employment support, immigration, and early childhood education programs including one of the first US Department of Labor-funded welfare to work initiatives, a licensed family daycare network, and one of the largest IRS-sponsored free tax preparation clinics in the United States. In 2008, she was a recipient of the second annual Emerging Social Work Leaders Award from NASW-NYC.

Ms. Vaghy holds a Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University with a concentration in Social Administration and Occupational Social Work and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Communications from the University of Michigan.