Andrew Friedman is Senior Director of Strategy and co-founder of The Action Lab. He is also the Director of the Initiative for Community Power and the Law, Power and Organizing Initiative at NYU School of Law.
He founded the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), the largest federated network of community organizing groups in the United States, in 2012. Andrew previously co-founded and spent 15 years building Make the Road New York into the leading democratically run, immigrant-led community organization in New York State.
Andrew also co-founded Local Progress, a national network of progressive municipal elected officials. In addition to NYU School of Law and NYU Wagner School for Public Service, Andrew has taught at the New School for Social Research and Columbia Law School.
Andrew is a magna cum laude graduate of Columbia College and a cum laude graduate of the New York University School of Law.