Andrea Meyerson has been on a roll for the past fourteen years. From founding Women On A Roll (WOAR), the premier lesbian social club in Southern California in 1995, to receiving HRC’s Local Hero Award in March of last year, Andrea has sat squarely in the center of Southern California’s LGBT community. Now an award-winning film-maker, television producer, event producer, concert promoter and entrepreneur, Andrea’s vision has helped create an active, vibrant, and tightly-knit community of lesbians in Southern California and beyond.
Andrea’s entrepreneurial sprit has translated into three separate businesses that each serve the LGBT community in different, but complementary, ways. The team behind Women On A Roll creates opportunities for lesbians to connect, socialize, travel and be active with each other. StandOut Productions, the live concert and event production company Andrea founded in 1997, ensures that LGBT and LGBT-friendly entertainers – both up-and-coming and iconic – are able to play in the best possible venues and have access to the widest possible audiences. All Out Films, the film and television production company Andrea founded in 2002 to produce her Laughing Matters series, allows her and her team to continue to document the work of LGBT comics on film so that audiences everywhere can experience the power of laughter.
A tireless advocate for the LGBT community and for women, Andrea received the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s L.A.C.E. (Lesbians Active in Community Empowerment) Award in 2002. PowerUp honored her as one of the Ten Amazing Women in Showbiz in 2004. In 2006, she received the WIN Outstanding Women Award from the Women’s Image Network and was also named a finalist for PlanetOut’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Andrea made history in 2007 when she became the first out lesbian to receive the YWCA’s Women of Achievement Award. In March of 2008, Andrea was honored with the prestigious HRC Local Hero Award.
Cambria Women’s Weekend is Andrea’s latest venture. Now in its second year, the weekend offers women the chance to gather, relax, play, mix and mingle amongst hundreds of other women in the quaint artists’ town of Cambria on California’s Central Coast.
Without a doubt, this woman who’s dedicated her life to finding new ways to bring the LGBT community together, is still on a roll.
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