Andrea Cohen, HouseWorks’ co-founder and CEO,
is a social entrepreneur dedicated to transforming the way care is delivered at home. Her passion for "getting it right" has inspired a series of pioneering ventures that raise the bar for helping seniors age in place. As HouseWorks' CEO, she has built the largest private-pay home care company in New England while creating innovative partnerships that support seniors at home, in senior housing, and in intentional communities like Boston's Beacon Hill Village.

Ms. Cohen was recently awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by Boston College Graduate School of Social Work and the Louis Lowy Award by the Massachusetts Gerontology Association. In recognition of her achievements as an entrepreneur, Ms. Cohen was selected as a 2009 Pinnacle Award honoree by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. Her business accomplishments have also been highlighted in print and electronic media including The New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, the Boston Business Journal, Harvard Magazine, Women's Business, uwemp, and Verving. In addition, she has been a been a featured presenter at professional and academic symposia sponsored by Harvard University, MIT, Boston College, the American Society on Aging and other leading organizations, speaking on eldercare, work/family, and business development issues.

Ms. Cohen currently sits on the Board of Directors of the National Family Caregiver's Association, the Schwartz Center Leadership Council, the Women's Advisory Committee of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and was most recently appointed to serve on the Board of Directors of The Commonwealth Institute. Previously, Ms. Cohen served on the Board of the Massachusetts Home Care Alliance, the National Private Duty Association, the Boston College Graduate School Alumni Board, and the NewBridge on the Charles project development committee for Hebrew SeniorLife. Ms. Cohen is an advisor to three companies – Care.com, Confidant, and Lotsa Helping Hands – that provide innovative, on-line solutions for family caregivers.

A tireless advocate of family caregivers, Ms. Cohen was selected as an at-large delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging where she helped influence national policies that will impact all seniors and family caregivers in the years ahead. Ms. Cohen also organized the Boston Family Caregiver Town Hall Meeting (a PBS forum broadcast in 2004), and was a principle supporter of the Family Caregiver Handbook produced by the MIT Workplace Center in 2007.

Andrea received her MSW from Boston College and completed her BA at Ithaca College in upstate New York.