Andrea Swain

Andrea Swain, Executive Director of the Yawkey Club of Roxbury, joined BGCB as the Roxbury Boys & Girls Club Executive Director in March 2001 and oversaw the 2006 expansion and renovation of the Club. When it reopened as a state-of-the-art facility in fall 2006, it was renamed the Yawkey Club.

Andrea came to BGCB from Peabody Properties, where she had been a Property Manager. Previously, she spent 10 years with the Boston Housing Authority in a variety of roles related to providing services to families and children within the Mission Main and Orchard Estates Housing Developments. She also previously worked part-time in the Roxbury Club in the Teen-Time Program.

Andrea received the 2009 Executive of the Year Award from the Yankee Chapter of the Boys & Girls Clubs Professional Association, in recognition of her outstanding leadership at the Club during the past eight years, and Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s 2009 Northeast Region’s Contribution to the Profession award, for her significant contribution towards the advancement of the Boys & Girls Club Movement during the course of her career.