Audrey Dow is a Public Affairs, Communications and Media Strategist, with a deep commitment to advancing college access, success, and affordability.

During her 15 years with the Campaign for College of Opportunity, Audrey became a sought-after expert, playing a pivotal role in shaping policies and initiatives that have significantly impacted the landscape of higher education across California. Audrey is a sought-after expert on issues of college access, success, affordability and racial equity speaking regularly at state and national convenings. She often contributes and is quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, Politico, The Atlantic, and National Public Radio.

Audrey has over twenty years of experience in the public and nonprofit sectors where she has trained Latinas to take on leadership roles in the public sector while working at Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE) and served as a gubernatorial appointee to the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.

Dow’s career has been focused on finding solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing the state of California including access and success in higher education, an aging infrastructure system, racial inclusion in hiring, contracting and university admissions, and ensuring underrepresented groups in the state have a seat at policy-making tables. 

Audrey has a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Policy and Management from the University of Southern California and a Masters in Public Affairs with an emphasis in Domestic Policy, and a certificate in Urban Policy, from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

She was appointed in 2019 by Governor Gavin Newsom to the Health Professions Education Foundation Board of Directors. She has served on the CA Student Aid Commission Cal Grant Modernization Workgroup, the Technical Advisory Committee for the California Future Health Workforce Commission, and was the California State Senate’s appointee to the Awards for Innovation in Higher Education Committee. 

Audrey is most proud of her four children, Isabella, Alexandra, Rocco, and Brody.