Andrea L. Meza
- Adjunct Professor
Andrea Meza ’15 is the director of advocacy campaigns and director of the immigration and food integrity campaigns at the Government Accountability Project. In this role, she works cross‑functionally across the organization to advance its mission of representing whistleblowers and ensuring their disclosures drive accountability.
Andrea Meza ’15 is the director of advocacy campaigns and director of the immigration and food integrity campaigns at the Government Accountability Project. In this role, she works cross‑functionally across the organization to advance its mission of representing whistleblowers and ensuring their disclosures drive accountability.
At Government Accountability Project, Meza has led the representation of dozens of immigration-sector whistleblowers whose disclosures exposed dangerous conditions in emergency operations for noncitizen minors, medical abuses, failures to implement Covid-19 safety precautions, failures to implement Covid-19 safety precautions, the risks of solitary confinement, and mismanagement of medical operations. She advises federal employees and contractors across many executive branch agencies in making protected disclosures and retaliation complaints to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, various Offices of Inspectors General, and Congress, including representation in mediation and litigation support. Meza currently serves as counsel for several whistleblowers who have raised concerns about corporate and government threats to food safety and Department of Justice and other executive branch misrepresentations to courts.
Mesa’s experience includes more than 15 years of work in public interest advocacy. Prior to joining Government Accountability Project, she served as the director of Family Detention Services at the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) where she managed a team of more than 25 advocates who provided free legal representation to families imprisoned in ICE custody in Karnes City, Texas, and oversaw the program’s public advocacy and litigation efforts. She has also served as the Albert M. Sacks Clinical Teaching and Advocacy Fellow at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program and as an Equal Justice Works fellow.
Meza holds both a Juris Doctor and Master of Science in Social Work from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Arizona State University.
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