Meet Andrés Fernández

Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, Andrés Fernández Álvarez joined Pitzer College in 2024. Prior to Pitzer, Andrés was the Dean of Students at Yale’s School of the Environment. Prior to that Andrés was an Associate Dean at Brown University, an Assistant Dean at Oberlin College, an Assistant Director of MBA Admissions at Columbia University, an Advisor for Global Programs at New York University, the Translator to the Venezuelan Ambassador to the United Nations and a Project Manager in a Congolese Refugee Camp in Zambia. He hopes to provide developmental advising/mentoring and helping students identify and understand their resources and options, empowering them to make more informed choices, facilitating opportunities to find a sense of belonging and to build relationships across differences.