Andrea Salinas

Educational Background
• Bachelor’s of Arts degree from University of California, Berkeley

Career
• Elected Oregon State Representative for the 38th District (2017-2023) and U.S. Representative for Oregon’s 6th Congressional District (2023) where she served as chair of the House Committee on Health Care
• Once a legislative aide to a U.S. senator and two U.S. Representatives, legislative director of the Oregon Environmental Council, started her own legislative consulting firm, and was the Oregon Vice President of a political consulting firm
• Supports increasing federal funding for mental health services in public schools and passing common-sense gun safety legislation like background checks; does not support the overturning of Roe v. Wade

Personal Information
• Married to her husband Chris; they have one daughter together
• Father immigrated from Mexico as a kid and worked in the cotton and tomato field in the Rio Grande Valley before becoming a police office
• First in her family to earn a college degree