Legislative and Policy Director
Andria Ventura left a corporate career in publishing in 1995 to work for Clean Water Action's New Jersey chapter. There she served as an organizer working on a wide array of issues, including drinking water, pollution prevention, and source water protection. She supplemented this work by serving on her town's environmental commission. Andria joined the California Clean Water staff in May 2003, after a two-year hiatus in Hawaii volunteering with the Waikiki Zoo's elephant program and working at Hawaii’s Oceanic Institute. In addition to overseeing Clean Water Action’s legislative efforts, Andria heads the toxics program where she focuses on surface and drinking water contamination and chemical policy reform. She has been a stakeholder involved with the development of the California’s Safer Consumer Products program, helped initiate the state’s site investigation on PFAS in drinking water, and facilitates a state workgroup focused on stopping PFAS and chemical pollution at the source. Andria also represents Clean Water Action as a California member of the national Safer States Coalition on chemical policy and the BizNGO policy workgroup. Andria has a B.A. in history from U.C. Santa Barbara and did graduate work on immigration history at Utah State University.
