Andrea is a director in the Technology Horizons Program and has worked at IFTF for 16 years. Her work focuses on identifying the long-term demographic, social, and technological trends that shape the transformation of work, the workplace, and household life. In particular, Andrea examines the underlying factors and unarticulated needs and desires that shape the diffusion, adoption, and reinvention of information and communications technologies at home and at work. She is interested in describing the transformation of work and household life, and its consequences for businesses and other organizations. She helps to identify and describe strategic organizational and management issues related to globally interdependent work, the integration of physical and electronic workspaces, and the future of the infomated household.

Currently, Andrea is leading IFTF's work in the future of cooperative strategy and the dynamics of collective action. She examines the emergence of bottom-up structures of social, economic, and political organization and the new models of value creation. One focus of this work examines how pervasive, mobile computing and communications technologies are enabling such innovations to emerge.

Andrea's research includes in-depth primary research studies--ethnographic interviewing, surveys, and participatory, action-oriented research methods--in North America, Asia, and Europe. She has presented her work internationally in Asia and Europe, as well as in North America.

Andrea holds an M.A. in Latin American studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in Hispanic studies from Harvard University.