Andrew Sta. Ana (he/they) is the deputy director of research and policy at the Asian American Federation (AAF). As a member of AAF’s leadership team, Sta. Ana seeks to raise the influence and well-being of the pan-Asian community through partnership with our 70+ member agencies. Sta. Ana supervises the policy, research, and small business programs using data and deep community collaboration to steer AAF’s policy advocacy and legislative agenda. Further, Sta. Ana serves as an adjunct clinical professor at New York Law School, where he launched the nation’s first law school-based legal clinic to represent victims of cyber harassment. His legal practice centers on the intersections of cyber harassment, antiviolence, the rights of youth, and LGBTQ+ survivors. For over a decade prior, he served as a leader at Day One, a nonprofit organization based in New York City that serves young victims of dating and sexual violence. As a litigator, he has represented hundreds of survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence in litigation and advocacy. In 2019, the National LGBT Bar Association recognized Sta. Ana as one of the nation’s best LGBTQ+ Lawyers under 40. In 2018, Sta. Ana served on the Biden Foundation’s advisory council on Violence Against Women. He has previously served as an expert trainer with the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence. In 2015, Sta. Ana was named a Movement Maker by the NoVo Foundation’s Move to End Violence. Having studied at the City University of New York’s School of Law and the State University of New York’s Binghamton University, Sta. Ana is a proud graduate of public education and a lifelong New Yorker.