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Andrea L Crooms  (nee: Andrea Poniecki) is currently the Director of the Department of the Enviornment for Prince George's County, Maryland. They also serve on the Board of Directors for District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, the water utility for Washington, DC and as a representative to the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) where they serve on the Climate, Energy and Environment Policy Committee (CEEPC), Chesapeake Bay & Water Resources Policy Committee (CBPC), and the Anacostia Watershed Steering Committee (AWSC). Prior to their current position, they served as Senior Advisor in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the United States Department of Energy and as a Public Defender in both Harlan County, Kentucky and the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are an environmental attorney, with expertise in natural resources economics, plant science, and energy engineering and 20 years of leadership experience in environmental regulation and climate change mitigation.

Department of Environment, Prince George's County
Since joining the Department, Director Crooms has been recognized as a leader on Climate across Maryland. They have overseen the rollout of a county-wide food scraps curbside collection program, one of the nation’s first and largest, led the capture of fugitive zebras in a case that made national headlines, rolled out a county-wide bulky trash strategy, oversaw the upgrade of the materials recycling facility, and developed the County's Climate Smart Commodities program.

U.S. Department of Energy
From 2015 to 2021, Crooms served in a number of leadership positions in transportation, solar, weatherization and manufacturing and oversaw a number of programs and initiatives at the US Department of Energy. In that role they received the Secretary of Energy’s Achievement Award as a member of the Hurricane Response Team, for serving at FEMA's National Response Coordination Center (NRCC) during Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma Prior to serving as a federal employee, Crooms served as a contractor to the US Department of Energy from 2011 until 2015 and oversaw the Buy American Program implemented under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Defender Association of Philadelphia
Crooms served as an Assistant Public Defender in the City of Philadelphia from 2007-2010.

Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy, Harlan County
Crooms graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law in May of 2004, and served as the District Court Public Defender in Harlan County working out of the Pineville office of the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy from 2004 until 2006.