Andy has been a member of the Women’s Fund since 2015, joining the Finance Committee in 2021. Andy was raised in Goleta with her five brothers and sister, after graduating from Dos Pueblos High School she moved to San Francisco where she completed college, earned her CPA license while working for Price Waterhouse. Andy founded a successful staffing firm in San Francisco specializing in the recruitment and placement of accountants in the Bay Area. After selling her staffing company in 2000, she retired and travelled the world, including living a year in San Miguel de Allende. She decided to move back to Santa Barbara in 2002 and started another business, Accounting a la Carte, providing accounting and consulting services to local business and nonprofit organizations. Andy has over 30 years of accounting, bookkeeping and CFO experience. Andy has served on the Mental Wellness Center Board of Directors since 2010, including Board Chair, she is currently their treasurer Additionally she is currently the Treasurer for Transition House. Besides an accounting career, Andy has taught beginning and intermediate accounting at several colleges and universities including Santa Barbara City College. She created the nonprofit accounting course that is now being taught at SBCC.