Andrés Henríquez

Andrés Henríquez formerly served as a Program Director in the Division of Research and Learning in the Education and Human Resources Directorate (EHR) of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Prior to joining NSF, Mr. Henríquez served as a program officer in education division of Carnegie Corporation of New York, where he led the Corporation's work in college and career ready standards and assessments and oversaw the work of the Next Generation Science Standards. This included funding the National Research Council's A Framework for K-12 Science Education, funding Achieve Inc. to develop the framework-aligned Next Generation Science Standards, and funding the NRC to write Developing Assessments for the Next Generation Science Standards. Earlier at Carnegie, he launched the Advancing Literacy initiative which focused on literacy for students in grades 4-12 and included a substantial body of work to support English language learners. Mr. Henríquez received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Hamilton College and a M.Ed. from Teachers College, Columbia University.