Kathy Andrade

Kathy Andrade (8 July 1932 – 2 July 2021) was a Salvadoran-American union activist.

Early life and family Andrade was born as Enriqueta Mixco on July 8, 1932, in Santa Ana, El Salvador. Her father died before her birth, and she spent much of her childhood in Guatemala due to political unrest. She returned to El Salvador in the 1940s and married, taking her husband's surname. The couple immigrated to the United States in 1949, but soon after her husband died of cancer.

Andrade met her second husband, Jorge Colon, while representing El Salvador in a cultural pageant. She lived in the Penn South housing development in Manhattan, sponsored by the ILGWU. She became an American citizen in the late 1950s.

Andrade continued to advocate for immigrant rights after her retirement from the ILGWU in 1995.