A lifetime Montgomery County resident, Andrea Baptiste grew up in Norristown, attended local schools and earned a BA degree in History from Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. She holds a Series 7 Financial Securities License and an Associate’s Degree in Paralegal Studies from Johnson & Wales University, in Providence. RI. She is a member of the Montgomery County PA Democrats State Committee delegation, Southeast Caucus Secretary, and a member of the Executive Committee. Andrea is the Board Chair of Montgomery County Democratic Women’s Leadership Initiative and the Municipal Chair for Collegeville Democrats.

 

Andrea has over 20 years’ experience in the commercial real estate, retail sectors and financial sectors, providing her with the valuable skills of understanding and anticipating peoples’ needs, forecasting, and balancing budgets, understanding of the financial markets, assessing fundraising needs and developing plans to do so.

 

Andrea ran for and won a seat as the only Democrat on the Collegeville Borough Council in 2007. She served a four-year term and worked tirelessly using her knowledge of business, construction, and commercial real estate industries to chair the Borough’s Business Liaison Committee, chair the Parks and Recreation Committee and was a member of the Finance Committee.

 

In 2017, as Municipal Chair of Collegeville Democrats, she guided a successful campaign for Borough Council to taking a four-seat majority of Council and secured the mayor’s office for a Democratic candidate for the first-time ever since the Borough was incorporated in 1896. The next Borough Council election cycle in 2019 brought another three-seat victory for Collegeville Democrats flipping Borough Hall to the current seven-seat majority.

 

Andrea has years of experience in both the private and public sector, which has provided her with an array of skills that make her uniquely capable of serving Montgomery County.