Andrea Cristina Mercado is the President and CEO of the Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund. The daughter of immigrants from Peru and Argentina, she brings over two decades of experience in civic engagement, strategic campaigns, and multiracial community organizing.

She served as the Executive Director of Florida Rising Together and the New Florida Majority Education Fund, where she spearheaded large-scale civic engagement programs that continue to grow political power that centers Black, Latino, and working class communities. She is a co-founder of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, where she was Director of Campaigns and Co-Chaired We Belong Together. A former Fulbright Scholar, Mercado learned community organizing and developed a lifelong commitment to Climate Justice while working with farmworker communities in Brazil. She lives with her family in South Florida, where she was recently named Best Activist by the Miami New Times.