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ANDREW FERGUSON
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ANDREW FERGUSON
TITLE
Founder & CEO
ORGANIZATION
Redwood Endeavors
BIOGRAPHY
Andrew is the Founder & CEO of Redwood Endeavors, a social impact platform for multiple public benefit ventures, including Redwood Fellows and The Neighborhood.
Prior to creating Redwood in 2025, Andrew served as Co-CEO of Dalio Education, a division within Dalio Philanthropies, where he led the team, overall strategy, and grant-making alongside Barbara Dalio. They worked together as partners for a decade (2014-2024) to build Dalio Education in service of young people, public schools, non-profit organizations, and communities in Connecticut; and to create the Connecticut Opportunity Project and to co-found the RISE Network. In 2024, as a Co-Chair, Andrew led the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities' 119K Commission on At-Risk and Disconnected Youth, which resulted in an actionable, multi-year strategy to get 60,000 young people back on track with broad support from bi-partisan leaders across Connecticut.
Prior to joining Dalio Education in 2014, Andrew served at the Connecticut Department of Education, where he led efforts to increase student achievement in Connecticut’s highest-need schools and districts. Earlier in his career, he worked as an elementary school teacher at Beecher School in New Haven.
Andrew is a Pahara and Redwood Fellow, and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He serves on the boards of the Community Mindfulness Project and Friends Center for Children.
