Andrea Garcia (she/her)

Board Member

Andrea Garcia (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara and Mexican) is a Physician Specialist at the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, where she spends some of her clinical time at the American Indian Counseling Center. She otherwise has the privilege of focusing on the structural determinants of health for the American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) community through issue areas such as homelessness, placemaking, data equity, narrative change, community defined evidence practices, and policy advocacy. As a Mayoral appointee for the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission, Dr. Garcia serves as Chair of the subcommittee on homelessness. Andrea is an alum of SJPLA’s inaugural Racial Equity Initiative Fellowship, and a recent Durfee Stanton Fellow.

Through all of her work, research, and volunteer endeavors, Dr. Garcia is most interested in centering the brilliance and inherent wisdom of Native people as they steward healthy futures for the next seven generations.