She received her J.D. (Honours) from the University of Toronto in 2003, and was called to Ontario bar in 2004. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature (Cultural Studies) from the University of California, San Diego. Before joining UOIT in 2009, Andrea was the Executive Director of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy (CILP) at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, and prior to that practiced trade-mark, copyright, privacy and technology law in Toronto. She has published articles on unsolicited bulk email, online hate complaints, and international online defamation cases. She has done policy research with the support of the Department of Justice (on online hate), the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (on information sharing between private entities and law enforcement), and Public Safety Canada (on online child exploitation crime prevention strategies).