Andreina Zuluaga

Andreina Zuluaga
Delegate for New Jersey

Andreina Zuluaga is a bilingual psychologist and social activist, originally from Venezuela. She is a founder of OVJNU Venezuela, Colombia, and OVJNU Global N.J. USA nonprofits focusing on the development of education, youth leadership, women’s empowerment, entrepreneurship, environmental protection, and promoting youth activists to assume leadership and engage with complex issues nationally and internationally. 

Andreina is currently working at Catholic Charities Community Services NY as a Case Manager in The Border is Everywhere (TBIE) program, focusing on supporting immigrants, asylum seekers, and newcomers with accessing services, and providing resources and information to support them through the process of adaptation in the U.S. She is an honorary volunteer psychologist and interpreter at RIF Asylum Support, creating and running a remote emotional support group from Covid-19 (2019) to create awareness about the impact of mental health, while educating, delivering and promoting the development of mental help support to refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers. 

Andreina is one of the core members of Her Migrant Hub, a Fordham University project, and is currently the Mental Health Coordinator. She strives to create a community of women of different nationalities, promoting education, respect for selves, respect for others, self-esteem, and unity beyond differences, while promoting mental health awareness, leadership and advocacy, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and overcoming migration challenges, changes, and barriers.