Executive Director, Andrus Family Fund
Leticia Peguero was appointed executive director of the Andrus Family Fund (AFF) in 2013, bringing more than 20 years of experience in social justice programming and philanthropy to her work.
Prior to AFF, Peguero was regional vice president at The Posse Foundation, where she managed Posse sites in Los Angeles, Boston, and New Orleans, and was in charge of the replication of Posse Houston. Before Posse, she spent five years as the deputy director of the Robert Wood Johnson Local Funding Partnerships, where she worked with organizations and funders identifying community-based innovation that worked at the intersection of health and the social determinants of health outcomes.
Peguero is a National Urban Fellows alumna. Her fellowship included working in the Vulnerable Populations portfolio at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation while attending graduate school. She is the recipient of the Hispanics in Philanthropy 2014 HIPGivers award. She helps run Areytos Performance Works, a dance theatre company working at the crossroads of African-Caribbean forms, contemporary modern dance, and performance art. Peguero holds a B.A. from Fordham University and a MPA from the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College.