Andrea Venezia

Andrea Venezia is executive director of the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. She has over 25 years of experience guiding research and policy initiatives to improve student success and postsecondary readiness, particularly for historically marginalized student populations. She previously served as senior principal research scientist and director of equitable college and careers at SRI International and as professor and executive director of the Education Insights Center at California State University, Sacramento. Earlier in her career, she held research and policy roles at WestEd, the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, and Stanford University, where she directed the Bridge Project, a national study on barriers to student progression from high school to college. Venezia earned her BA in English from Pomona College, her MA in education policy and administration from Stanford University, and her PhD in public policy from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

updated 2025