Appointed to serve as one of 26 inaugural members of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, a Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) body established by executive order to advance the Administration’s whole-of-government approach to environmental justice.

Provided subject-matter expertise and actionable recommendations on climate resilience, heat stress, solid and hazardous waste, pesticides, and community engagement, ensuring that historically overburdened and underserved communities’ voices informed high-level federal decision-making. 

Selected by the Biden-Harris Transition Team to lead review of the U.S. Forest Service. Conducted interviews with senior agency leaders and subject matter experts to develop transition memoranda for incoming Cabinet and Subcabinet officials. 

Led Tribal and stakeholder engagement and coordinated with cross-agency transition teams on intergovernmental, workforce, and environmental justice issues. Briefed the Secretary and Deputy Secretary nominees and shaped the Administration's early priorities on natural resource management, climate, and agricultural workforce policy.

Appointed to serve as Chief of Staff for Natural Resources and Environment, supporting oversight of the largest and most complex Agency within USDA, the U.S. Forest Service.  Advisor to the Under Secretary, driving policy, operations, and workforce transformation across the U.S. Forest Service. 

During her tenure with the Department, Delgado was entrusted to strengthen nation-to-nation relationships with Tribal Nations and to advance Tribal co-stewardship of the nation’s forests and grasslands. She was recognized for leading interagency efforts with the Department of the Interior, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Office of Management and Budget to deliver multi-billion-dollar programs; expand access to Agency programs and resources; and implement reforms that increased compensation for wildland firefighters and improved housing affordability and accessibility for Agency employees.

Andrea Delgado converted to career service as Deputy Regional Forester for the Rocky Mountain Region of the U.S. Forest Service. During her tenure with the Agency, she served as the lead executive for forestry, wildfire management, Tribal relations, and intergovernmental affairs, strengthening relations with State leaders, facilitating historic agreements with Tribal Nations, implementing national policy, and leading multi-state operations that achieved record safety and performance across 17 National Forests and 7 National Grasslands in Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, and Wyoming. 

Delgado aligned portfolios spanning Fire, Fuels, and Aviation Management; Renewable Resources; State, Private, and Tribal Forestry; Shared Stewardship; and External Affairs, ensuring policy translated into execution across the region.

As Government Affairs Director at the United Farm Workers Foundation (UFW Foundation) (2019–2022), Andrea designed and executed legislative and administrative strategies to advance legal status and better working and living conditions for agricultural workers. She led the strategy that won statutory language creating USDA’s first Farm and Food Worker Relief (FFWR) Program, a $670 million initiative delivered through nonprofits to provide $600 COVID-19 relief payments to eligible farm and food workers. 

Delgado also spearheaded the bipartisan strategy behind the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (H.R. 5038), guiding its introduction and House passage, with reforms to legalization pathways and the H-2A program. Throughout, Delgado centered the voices of farmworkers and their families, connected the most impacted communities to policy makers, provided expert briefings and prepared testimony for House and Senate proceedings. These outcomes demonstrate a track record of cross-aisle coalition building, measurable wins, and execution under scrutiny, the same approach she brings to client engagements.

As Legislative Director at Earthjustice (2017–2019, Washington, DC), Andrea led legislative and administrative strategy for the Healthy Communities program. She centered advocacy on people most exposed to toxic pollution and preserved two federal protections for children, farmworkers, pesticide applicators, and consumers through coordinated coalition, lobbying Congress, and agency work.  As Senior Legislative Representative (2012–2017), she led national campaigns that secured the first federal standards for coal ash disposal and achieved a historic overhaul of the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard and the Certified Pesticide Applicator rule.  Delgado coordinated the advocacy that prompted public hearings and a 2016 U.S. Commission on Civil Rights report on EPA’s Title VI obligations, and she secured legislation to ensure that state coal ash permit programs are “at least as protective as” the federal rule. Her efforts included preparing congressional testimony, directly lobbying elected officials and the Executive Branch, developing education materials, building grassroots and national stakeholder support, and serving as a bilingual spokesperson.