

As a high school and college student, he worked in factories and meatpacking plants. As a farm worker, he picked cotton and hoed weeds in cabbage, watermelon, cantaloupe, peanut, and cotton fields. As a boy, he sold newspapers and worked in restaurants washing dishes, pots, and pans. He has worked and participated in the democratization of Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panamá, Colombia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and Haiti. He was a political commentator on ABC 7 television for six years in Chicago and WGN radio and a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, the only national Latino leader featured regularly as a commentator on English language radio or television and as a columnist in a major publication. He has been recognized five times as one of the Most Influential Hispanics in America, inducted into the “Society of Life Models” by OMNI Youth Services, awarded the Medallion for Leadership from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the Medallion for Excellence by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, and the Eagle Award from the Latino Leaders Network, all in Washington, DC. He has received five honorary doctorates and been recognized as a distinguished alumnus by Howard Payne University, Northern Illinois University, and Loyola University Chicago. He has earned five degrees including a BA from Howard Payne University, an M.Ed from Antioch College, an Ed.S and Ed.D from Northern Illinois University, and a post-doctorate MA from Loyola University Chicago. Andrade received the Presidential Citizens Medal, the second-highest civilian award in the United States, for “the performance of exemplary deeds of service for the nation” and the National Ohtli Award, the highest honor presented by the government of Mexico, for distinguished service to the Mexican and Mexican American community in the United States. He is one of only 4 Latinos in history to be honored by both governments the United States and Mexico. Rumba Meats & USHLI Partner to Award $25,000 in Scholarships.McDonald’s Partners with USHLI for 7th Year!.Grassroots Leadership Development Program (GLDP).Collegiate Leadership Development Program (CLDP).Candidate & Campaign Management Training.
