Andrés Henríquez
Program Officer
Education Division

Andrés Henríquez has over fifteen years of experience as a consultant and senior staff member at a number of organizations. At the Corporation, Henríquez will be working on issues across the spectrum of the Education Division's program concerns with a special emphasis on intermediate and adolescent literacy.

Prior to joining the Corporation, Henríquez served as the Assistant Director for Strategic Planning, Center for Children and Technology (CCT) at the New York offices of the Education Development Center, Inc. During 1997-1998, he worked at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington, D.C. as an Associate Program Director, responsible for monitoring the Network Infrastructure for Education and assisted with the Research in Education Policy and Practice program. Earlier, he gained research skills and experience while working as a Field Research Coordinator at the Children's Television Workshop and as a Senior Research Analyst at MTV Networks, both in New York City.

Henríquez is a certified teacher and taught for five years at a public elementary school in East Harlem.

Henríquez has served on a number of proposal review panels for organizations including NSF, DeWitt Wallace-Readers' Digest Fund, the U.S. Department of Education and the Public Education Network. Over the years, he has worked as a consultant to several organizations, including the I Have a Dream Foundation, The Ford Foundation and MacMillan Publishers.

He has also published numerous papers and articles on many topics, including educational media and technology. Henríquez received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Hamilton College and a master's in curriculum and teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University.