Andreina Febres

Andreina grew up in Caracas, Venezuela and is the youngest of 4 sisters. She came to the States for a few months to learn English in 1999 and fell in love with the Bay Area. She loved the diversity of the area and decided to find a way to stay longer by finishing her Business degree at Cal State East Bay (known as Cal State Hayward). She worked as an au pair to afford living in the Bay Area as a student. She worked at a Hispanic Marketing Agency until 2010 and started a family in 2011. She’s the mother of two boys, Javier & Carlos. Her husband, Rafael, is always encouraging her to follow her dreams so she actually LOVES her jobs.

Andreina has been the Project Manager of the Clorox Safe Water Project in Peru since 2013 & travels to Northern Peru twice a year to visit rural communities that benefit from this effort. This job has impacted her life and her desire to support other people that are in need.

Andreina’s mother battled cancer & passed away in 2009. Since then, this experience woke up a need in her to support women dealing with cancer. That same year, she joined a Zumba training and started to teach. One of her students was dealing with cancer, and in 2014 they co-founded a non-profit organization, Dancing Saved My Life. With their community’s support, they organize local events & fundraisers to raise enough money to host two local retreats at Commonweal in Bolinas, Ca, to offer wellness retreats to women dealing with cancer. To learn more, you can visit: www.dancingsavedmylife.org

Andreina loves to travel and has combined her passion for teaching with traveling and has been offering international retreats to her friends/students since 2014, visiting Tulum MX, Cuba, Costa Rica, Peru & Chacala, MX. The next adventure was scheduled for 2020 to Colombia (waiting for new dates due to COVID-19 status).