Andrea Coleman is a local leader and a community activist for Greater Hazelwood Community in Pittsburgh PA focusing on Lifelong Learning in Higher Education.

Daughter of Helen Dennis Matriarch of the family with five living generations from Hazelwood. Andrea attended Grade school, Elementary School, and High School in Hazelwood and then moved on to pursue a career in the field of Education graduating from Carlow University in 2006 with a Bachelor's in Early Childhood Development and then a Master's of Education in Curriculum Instruction in 2011.

She held employment positions as a Private Duty Nanny, and the Downtown YMCA, Hazelwood YMCA, and University of Pittsburgh Families of Excellence, under Jerome Taylor,  PhD

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Beginning with Books, Western PA School for Blind Children, Children's Institute, Pittsburgh Public schools, Andrea Coleman Family Daycare Home, St Edmund's Academy School, Jewish Community Center, and currently an Instructor for Community College of Allegheny County Senior Programming.

Serving on the Carlow University Alumni Advisory Council, Advisory Council for Allegheny Health Network,

Teacher's Advisory Council for the Carnegie Science Center STEM Program and the 3C Cohort of the Center of Life Program in Hazelwood on Social Justice.

Committee of the Affordable Housing for the Hazelwood Initiative community, committee of the Greater Hazelwood Community Collaboration Making a Greater Hazelwood, and good standing member of the Edna B. Makenzie Pittsburgh Branch of ASALH under President Ronald Saunders, she also sits on the Penn Hills Advisory Council of Civil and Human Justice. The Greater Pittsburgh Age Friendly Program Community Panel.

Andrea founded the Garden of Different Abilities in Hazelwood the year of 2017, after suffering a stroke stemmed from Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Awards Civic Leadership Academy, Frank E. Bolden Tuition Scholarship Award ,Poise Foundation, Administrative Skills award diploma from Goodwill Employment Training Center, Proclamation from the City of Pittsburgh Corey OConnor over fifty years of Volunteer Service in Hazelwood.

A Preaching and Teaching Prolific Poet concerning Social and Human Justice and Disability Advocate of ADA Compliance and Awareness. She also has established the Black History in Hazelwood  Humanity, along with being A Mentor,Tutor, and Volunteer for the Hazelwood Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Launching new Curriculum of P>U>S>H> Prayers Up Sends Hopre to Domestic Violence in 2023.