Andrea Bonilla (she/her/hers)

External Affairs Manager
Vineyard Offshore
Boston, Massachusetts

Andrea Bonilla, External Affairs Manager, works to support community engagement, outreach, communications, and permitting activities for Vineyard Offshore.

Andrea’s professional experience ranges across a wide set of industries focused on stakeholder and community engagement. Prior to Vineyard, she worked at Eversource focusing on South Fork and Sunrise wind. Before that, she worked at the Workforce Development Institute (WDI) as Long Island’s Regional Director working to strengthen NY's workforce via “boots on the ground” information, workforce expertise, and funding, facilitating projects that build workforce skills and strengthen employers’ ability to hire, promote, and retain workers, supporting labor unions and encouraging living wages across all industries, and supporting emerging industries like wind and renewable energies. Prior to WDI, Andrea came from an economic and community development, and real estate background, having spent over 8 years overseeing a revitalization project in Huntington Station, NY, Long Island, where she partnered with local community organizations for a wide array of programming from education, environment, and arts to women’s programming, business assistance, and youth sports. Previously she also had experience with social media consulting and helping small businesses and organizations create and develop digital strategies.

Andrea has an Arts Bachelor degree from Brown University in International Relations and Latin American & Caribbean Studies. Andrea lives on Long Island, a place she is excited to be a leader in renewable energy and resiliency for the nation. She enjoys gardening, concerts, and traveling in her free time.

Presentation(s):

• Local Content Pathways For Domestic and International Partners | Public-Private Set Aside Supply Chain Strategies

  Thursday, May 25, 2023
  11:45 AM - 12:45 PM CT