Andrea Bonilla is the Senior Manager of External Affairs for Vineyard Offshore, an offshore wind developer. Her role is to develop and implement a strategy to engage all stakeholders through genuine conversations and collaborations as we foster energy independence and reliability, transition to renewable energy, and create family sustaining wages and opportunities for local businesses. 

 

Andrea’s professional experience ranges across a wide set of industries focused on stakeholder and community engagement, relationship building, government relations, labor relations, and economic & workforce development. Prior to Vineyard, she worked at Eversource Energy, focusing on South Fork and Sunrise Wind. Before that, she worked at the Workforce Development Institute (WDI) as Long Island’s Regional Director working to strengthen NY's workforce via “boots on the ground” information, workforce expertise, and funding, facilitating projects that build workforce skills and strengthen employers’ ability to hire, promote, and retain workers. At WDI Andrea was focused on economic development by supporting labor unions and encouraging living wages across all industries, and supporting emerging industries like wind and renewable energies. Prior to WDI, Andrea came from an economic and community development, and real estate background, having spent over 8 years overseeing a revitalization project in Huntington Station, NY, Long Island, where she partnered with local community organizations for a wide array of programming from education, environment, and arts to women’s programming, business assistance, and youth sports. Previously she also had experience with social media consulting and helping small businesses and organizations create and develop digital strategies. 

 

She is a board member of the Long Island Association (LIA) and the Huntington Chamber of Commerce; was Chairwoman of the Town of Huntington’s COVID Small Business Recovery Task Force 2020-2022; and a graduate of the Class of 2016 of Leadership Huntington and the Huntington Greening Fellowship 2021. Most recently, Andrea was recognized by Long Island Business News as a 2022 40 under Forty honoree and a City and State 2024 Economic Development Trailblazer. 

 

Andrea has an Arts Bachelor degree from Brown University in Latin American & Caribbean Studies and International Relations and lives in Huntington Station, NY.

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