Andrea Carter

Andrea Carter is a leader ready to teach others how to involve those with lived experience by using her own experiences as powerful examples.

Andrea is a Cost Of Poverty Experience facilitator and speaker for Think Tank, Inc., by way of the Corporation of National & Community Service (CNCS). In addition to her public speaking she participates and/or speaks in the monthly Power Hour, as well as a licensed chemical dependency (LCDL II) counselor.

Andrea is a product of Wittenberg University and Wilberforce University (where she taught for the Princeton Review). She spent the first 10 years of her career as an educator for Springfield City Schools where she became nominated for a national award in mathematics. 

Andrea is a married mother of 3 girls, aged 21,16, and 5 years old, and recently a new grandma. The Carter family lives in Springfield, Ohio with her husband Mike. She is a champion for the wholeness of communities and individuals, across the nation.

Having now focused her efforts on returning citizens, Carter speaks to area communities about an assortment of issues that pertain to rehabilitation, specifically reentry from incarceration, alcohol and drug addiction, and stigmas associated with poverty, addiction, and mental health; all of which she has personal experience with.

She has over a decade clean under her belt and is still working her way out of situational poverty after 11 years. This is her passion and now life’s work.